ability to protect pages

very elegant workarounds
brilliant thoughts

mediawikibot.rb

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env ruby
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# TODO:
+# - Fix HTML parsing, no regexen! See wpEditToken+wpEdittime
+# - EditToken-stuff in its own method?
 
 module MediaWikiBot
 
@@ -12,6 +15,9 @@ class WikiBot
 
   def initialize(wiki)
     @wiki = wiki
+
+    @client = HTTPAccess2::Client.new()
+    @client.set_cookie_store("cookie.dat")
   end
 
   #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -30,6 +36,13 @@ class WikiBot
     return result.content
   end
 
+  #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  # HTTP authentication
+
+  def set_basic_auth(user_id, passwd)
+    @client.set_basic_auth(@wiki, user_id, passwd)
+  end
+
   #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   # MediaWiki stuff: Could be useful for other wiki bots
 
@@ -58,9 +71,11 @@ class WikiBot
     return @wiki + "index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin"
   end
 
+  def url_protect(title)
+    return @wiki + "index.php?title=" + url_encode(title) + "&action=protect"
+  end
+
   def login(wiki_name, wiki_password)
-    @client = HTTPAccess2::Client.new()
-    @client.set_cookie_store("cookie.dat")
 
     post_form(url_submitlogin(), 
       { "wpName" => wiki_name,
@@ -119,7 +134,6 @@ class WikiBot
     token_page = post_form(url_delete(title),
       { "wpReason" => reason,
         "wpConfirm" => "1",})
-    # FIXME: Uahh.
     token = token_page.scan(/name='wpEditToken' value="(.*?)"/)[0][0]
     post_form(url_delete(title),
       { "wpReason" => reason,
@@ -154,12 +168,17 @@ class WikiBot
     $stderr.print("Submitting '", title, "'.\n")
 
     token_page = @client.get_content(url_edit(title))
-    # FIXME: Uahh.
+    while ! token_page.match(/value="(.*?)" name="wpEdittime" /) 
+      # FIXME: This workaround loop really fucking sucks.
+      token_page = @client.get_content(url_edit(title))
+    end
     time = token_page.scan(/value="(.*?)" name="wpEdittime" /)[0][0]
+
     # No token for MediaWiki 1.3.x
     if token_page =~ /wpEditToken/ 
       token = token_page.scan(/value="(.*?)" name="wpEditToken" /)[0][0]
     end
+
     post_form(url_edit_submit(title),
       { "wpTextbox1" => body,
         "wpSummary" => summary,
@@ -226,6 +245,24 @@ class WikiBot
     get_categories(title).member?(category)
   end
 
+  def is_protected?(title)
+    return @client.get_content(url_page(title)) =~ /action=unprotect/
+  end
+
+  def protect(title, reason)
+    
+    token_page = @client.get_content(url_protect(title))
+    # No token for MediaWiki 1.3.x
+    if token_page =~ /wpEditToken/ 
+      token = token_page.scan(/name='wpEditToken' value="(.*?)"/)[0][0]
+    end
+
+    post_form(url_protect(title),
+      { "wpReasonProtect" => reason,
+        "wpConfirmProtectB" => "confirm",
+        "wpEditToken" => token })
+  end
+
 end # class WikiBot
 
 end # module MediaWikiBot