Simple Login doesnt work

[TobiasWeiseX]

import dokuwiki

try:
    url = "http://my.page.com/dokuwiki"
    nick = "myname"
    pwd = "mypwd"
    wiki = dokuwiki.DokuWiki(url, nick, pwd)
    html = wiki.pages.html('start')
    print(html)

except (dokuwiki.DokuWikiError, Exception) as err:
    print('unable to connect: %s' % err)

gives me Exception

unable to connect: invalid login or password!

while

from xmlrpc.client import ServerProxy
from urllib.parse import urlencode

URL = "http://my.page.com/dokuwiki"
USER = "myname"
PWD = "mypwd"

url = '%s/lib/exe/xmlrpc.php?%s' % (URL, urlencode({'u': USER, 'p': PWD}))
proxy = ServerProxy(url)
print(proxy.dokuwiki.getVersion())
# should print something like: Release 2018-04-22b "Greebo"

for x in proxy.dokuwiki.search('start'):
    print(x["snippet"])
    break

does everything i want...

Any idea what this could be?

[fmenabe]

[duplicate of #15]

It seems that on some configuration, calling the XMLRPC dokuwiki.login method return False. This call is done in the constructor because it is required for cookie based authentication and it allows to ensure the connection is working (an error is thrown when initializing the object and not at the fisrt call).
By default, username and password are passed in the URI, so the call to login should always return True ... Just to confirm, from the snippet code, can you show the result of (should return True but seem to fail) :

print(proxy.dokuwiki.login(USER, PWD))

I pushed a commit in the login branch of the repo that remove the call to the login method in the constructor. Can you test this branch and confirm it now works for you?

Before merging the branch and releasing a new version, I'm still curious about why the call to the login method fail. Do you have any Captcha or redirect configured server-side? Can you also test cookie authentication (this will probably fail but may give clues of what's wrong):

wiki = dokuwiki.DokuWiki(URL, USER, PWD, cookieAuth=True)

[TobiasWeiseX]

print(proxy.dokuwiki.login(USER, PWD))

returns False.

wiki = dokuwiki.DokuWiki(URL, USER, PWD, cookieAuth=True)

ends in the same unable to connect: invalid login or password! error

I don't use any Captcha or redirect configured server-side.

Oh and login branch works.

[fmenabe]

I just release a new version (1.2.1) on PyPI.