Question thread #148

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

Comments

[etfb]

Has anything changed about the Dreamwidth interface/flat API? When I post to the LiveJournal equivalent with mode=sessiongenerate and a deliberately wrong password (for testing purposes), it gives me an error as expected:

errmsg
Invalid password
ljsession

success
OK

When I do the same to the Dreamwidth URL, it gives me this:

errmsg
Client error: No mode specified.
success
FAIL

I'm using Postman for testing, and putting the parameters in the Body section as form-data. As I say: works fine with LJ, not with DW. Any hints on what I should be looking for?

[etfb]

Interesting: I tried x-www-form-urlencoded instead of form-data, and it went through OK, even when I put in the correct API key/password. So it looks like a recent change has made DW decide to only accept that one content type where previously it accepted the other, or maybe even both.

Making required changes to timmc/ljdump v2.0.0 to see if this works there too...