Revert r30537, 30539 (Special:API redirect)

Even if this has no security issues, it seems pretty broken and limited. The API likes to use characters which are illegal in page titles, so you couldn't pass them on from this special page. I don't recommend reapplying this.

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index c3d136e..14bd2c5 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -155,7 +155,6 @@ it from source control: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_SVN
 * (bug 10365) Localization of Special:Version
 * When installing using Postgres, the Pl/Pgsql language is now checked for 
   and installed when at the superuser level.
-* Added [[Special:API]] shortcut to api.php
 
 === Bug fixes in 1.12 ===
 

diff --git a/includes/SpecialPage.php b/includes/SpecialPage.php
index ac05c68..3be70ee 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/SpecialPage.php
+++ b/includes/SpecialPage.php
@@ -152,7 +152,6 @@ class SpecialPage
                'Listadmins'                => array( 'SpecialRedirectToSpecial', 'Listadmins', 'Listusers', 'sysop' ),
                'MergeHistory'              => array( 'SpecialPage', 'MergeHistory', 'mergehistory' ),
                'Listbots'                  => array( 'SpecialRedirectToSpecial', 'Listbots', 'Listusers', 'bot' ),
-               'API'                       => array( 'SpecialAPI' ),
                );
 
        static public $mAliases;
@@ -849,22 +848,3 @@ class SpecialMycontributions extends UnlistedSpecialPage {
                return SpecialPage::getTitleFor( 'Contributions', $wgUser->getName() );
        }
 }
-
-/**
- * Shortcut to api.php
- *
- * Unfortunately we can't use SpecialRedirectToSpecial here
- */
-class SpecialAPI extends UnlistedSpecialPage {
-       function __construct() {
-               parent::__construct('API');
-       }
-       
-       function execute($par) {
-               global $wgScriptPath, $wgOut;
-               if($par != '')
-                       $wgOut->redirect("$wgScriptPath/api.php?$par");
-               else
-                       $wgOut->redirect("$wgScriptPath/api.php");
-       }
-}