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There isn't anything special in the API that would let you do this. You could send the user directly to the ask a question page.

I fiddled with the FireFox pluginFireFox plugin I created to see if I could add the ability to post directly to the site to add an answer to a question or a comment if someone was already logged in. If I remember correctly there is some key that is required for the POST request and it wasn't obvious how that key was generated.

There isn't anything special in the API that would let you do this. You could send the user directly to the ask a question page.

I fiddled with the FireFox plugin I created to see if I could add the ability to post directly to the site to add an answer to a question or a comment if someone was already logged in. If I remember correctly there is some key that is required for the POST request and it wasn't obvious how that key was generated.

There isn't anything special in the API that would let you do this. You could send the user directly to the ask a question page.

I fiddled with the FireFox plugin I created to see if I could add the ability to post directly to the site to add an answer to a question or a comment if someone was already logged in. If I remember correctly there is some key that is required for the POST request and it wasn't obvious how that key was generated.

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There isn't anything special in the API that would let you do this. You could send the user directly to the ask a question page.

I fiddled with tryingthe FireFox plugin I created to get it so thatsee if I could add the ability to post directly to the site to add an answer pageto a question or a comment page via the FireFox plugin I created but if someone was already logged in. If I remember correctly there wasn't an obvious way to getis some key that wasis required to dofor the actual POST request and it wasn't obvious how that key was generated.

There isn't anything special in the API that would let you do this. You could send the user directly to the ask a question page.

I fiddled with trying to get it so that I could post directly to an answer page or comment page via the FireFox plugin I created but if I remember correctly there wasn't an obvious way to get some key that was required to do the actual POST.

There isn't anything special in the API that would let you do this. You could send the user directly to the ask a question page.

I fiddled with the FireFox plugin I created to see if I could add the ability to post directly to the site to add an answer to a question or a comment if someone was already logged in. If I remember correctly there is some key that is required for the POST request and it wasn't obvious how that key was generated.

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There isn't anything special in the API that would let you do this. You could send the user directly to the ask a question page.

I fiddled with trying to get it so that I could post directly to an answer page or comment page via the FireFox plugin I created but if I remember correctly there wasn't an obvious way to get some key that was required to do the actual POST.