patch_api.py

--- api-bak.py  2015-09-12 19:43:15.000000000 +0200
+++ api.py      2015-09-21 19:08:16.262108348 +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
@@ -95,8 +95,13 @@ 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:

patch_page.py

--- page-bak.py 2015-09-12 19:43:15.000000000 +0200
+++ page.py     2015-09-21 19:06:49.246895155 +0200
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ class Page(object):
                        newname = pagename
                return Page(self.site, newname, check, followRedir)                                             
                        
-       def getWikiText(self, expandtemplates=False, force=False):
+       def getWikiText(self, expandtemplates=False, force=False, getrequest=False):
                """Gets the Wikitext of the page
                
                expandtemplates - expand the templates to wikitext instead of transclusions
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ class Page(object):
                        params['rvexpandtemplates'] = '1'
                if self.section is not False:
                        params['rvsection'] = self.section
-               req = api.APIRequest(self.site, params)
+               req = api.APIRequest(self.site, params, getrequest=getrequest)
                response = req.query(False)
                if self.pageid == 0:
                        self.pageid = int(response['query']['pages'].keys()[0])