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action=oathvalidate
(main | oathvalidate)
- This module is internal or unstable. Its operation may change without notice.
- This module requires read rights.
- This module only accepts POST requests.
- Source: OATHAuth
- License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later
Validate a two-factor authentication (OATH) token.
Parameters:
- user
User to validate token for. Defaults to the current user.
- Type: user name
- totp
- Deprecated.
Two-factor authentication (OATH) token. Legacy, use "data" param instead
- data
JSON encoded data expected by the module currently activated for the user being authenticated
- token
A "csrf" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens
- This parameter is required.
Examples:
- Validate a token for the current user
- api.php?action=oathvalidate&totp=123456&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
- Validate a token for the user Example
- api.php?action=oathvalidate&user=Example&totp=123456&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
- Validate JSON data for user Example
- api.php?action=oathvalidate&user=Example&data={"totp":"123456"}&token=123ABC [open in sandbox]
Debug data:
[SQLBagOStuff] MainObjectStash using store ReplicatedBagOStuff[objectcache] MainWANObjectCache using store EmptyBagOStuffIP: 216.73.216.56Start request GET /mediawiki/api.php?action=help&modules=oathvalidate
HTTP HEADERS:
CONTENT-TYPE:
CONTENT-LENGTH: 0
USER-AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
HOST: zero-k.info
COOKIE: wikidb229_mw__session=kbsdddjq3i8nfl344cn1tc0snq4jnf2r
ACCEPT-ENCODING: gzip, br, zstd, deflate
ACCEPT: */*
CONNECTION: close[localisation] LocalisationCache: using store LCStoreDB[session] SessionManager using store SqlBagOStuff[session] Session "kbsdddjq3i8nfl344cn1tc0snq4jnf2r" requested without UserID cookie[DBReplication] Cannot use ChronologyProtector with EmptyBagOStuff[DBReplication] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LBFactory::getChronologyProtector: request info {
"IPAddress": "216.73.216.56",
"UserAgent": "Mozilla\/5.0 AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot\/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"ChronologyProtection": false,
"ChronologyPositionIndex": 0,
"ChronologyClientId": false
}[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::lazyLoadReplicationPositions: executed chronology callback.[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLocalConnection: connected to database 0 at 'localhost'.[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[DBConnection] Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer::getLocalConnection: connected to database 0 at 'localhost'.[MessageCache] MessageCache using store SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] SqlBagOStuff::lock failed due to timeout for wikidb229-mw_:messages:en.[ContentHandler] Created handler for wikitext: WikitextContentHandler[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[SQLBagOStuff] Connection mysql object #126 (handle id #120) will be used for SqlBagOStuff[MessageCache] MessageCache::load: Loading en... local cache is empty, global cache is expired/volatile, loading from databaseParserFactory: using preprocessor: Preprocessor_HashUnstubbing $wgLang on call of $wgLang::_unstub from ParserOptions->__construct