patch2_api.py

--- api-bak.py  2015-09-12 19:43:15.000000000 +0200
+++ api.py      2015-09-25 09:16:10.602428225 +0200
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class APIDisabled(APIError):
 
 class APIRequest:
        """A request to the site's API"""
-       def __init__(self, wiki, data, write=False, multipart=False):
+       def __init__(self, wiki, data, write=False, multipart=False, getrequest=False):
                """
                wiki - A Wiki object
                data - API parameters in the form of a dict
@@ -79,10 +79,8 @@ class APIRequest:
                                self.encodeddata = self.encodeddata + singledata
                else:
                        self.encodeddata = urlencode(self.data, 1)
-                       self.headers = {
-                               "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
-                               "Content-Length": str(len(self.encodeddata))
-                       }
+                       self.headers = { "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }
+                        if not getrequest : self.headers["Content-Length"] = str(len(self.encodeddata))
                self.headers["User-agent"] = wiki.useragent
                if gzip:
                        self.headers['Accept-Encoding'] = 'gzip'
@@ -95,8 +93,13 @@ class APIRequest:
                        self.opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPDigestAuthHandler(wiki.passman), urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(wiki.cookies))
                else:
                        self.opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(wiki.cookies))
-               self.request = urllib2.Request(self.wiki.apibase, self.encodeddata, self.headers)
-
+               if getrequest:
+                 self.request = urllib2.Request(self.wiki.apibase + '?' + self.encodeddata, None, self.headers)
+               else:
+                 self.request = urllib2.Request(self.wiki.apibase, self.encodeddata, self.headers)
+               #print 'xxx', self.request.get_type(), self.request.get_method(), self.request.get_host(), self.request.get_data()
+               #print 'xx2', self.request.get_full_url()
+
        def setMultipart(self, multipart=True):
                """Enable multipart data transfer, required for file uploads."""
                if not canupload and multipart: