Last modified: 2013-04-11 16:21:57 UTC
The reference external editor (extensions/ee) is very much outdated. It uses all the html interfaces instead of the api, fakes itself as mozilla 1.0...
JFTR http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:External_editors http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ee/
Last revision of ee.pl was 5 months ago.
>...fakes itself as mozilla Well fixing bug 23765 (just a quick fix to make the screen scraping work again) I also made it stop faking itself as mozilla. It still desperately needs to stop using the api.
External editor support was removed in Ic3791d18. Use the API.