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action=centralauthtoken
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- This module requires read rights.
- Source: CentralAuth
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Fetch a centralauthtoken for making an authenticated request to an attached wiki.
Returns a token that can be use to authenticate API requests on other wikis. For action API requests, put it in the centralauthtoken GET parameter. For REST API requests, add an Authorization: CentralAuthToken {token} header. In MediaWiki frontend logic, you can use the mediawiki.ForeignApi ResourceLoader module.
Example:
- Fetch a centralauthtoken
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