On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
On any wiki where there's an operation restricted to logged in users, the error message "You must be logged in .." is shown with a link to the login form. Is there a reason (other than "not coded yet") why this login form isn't rendered directly onto the error page, skipping one step?
I've been meaning to do this for some time, in fact.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
This idea has been kicked around for a while, but there's a potential snag -- one issue is that we want to be able to move the login form to SSL consistently so we're not sending passwords around unencrypted.
But given that a) this functionality hasn't materialized yet, and b) it wouldn't be used 99% of end-users even if it did, this isn't a reason to avoid implementing this feature right now.