On 3 October 2011 21:18, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Can you possible enable $wgSecureLogin on all wiki? The feature let you login under HTTPS when you are come from HTTP.
Man page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSecureLogin
Revisions: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/75585
Hmm, this seems to indicate it will return you to http: after authenticating; this is an unsafe practice which I would recommend strongly against.
If you log in on HTTPS, we want to make sure that no session data (eg login cookies) can leak to HTTP -- where someone on your wireless network could hijack your session, delete a thousand pages on Wikipedia, and get your account locked out.
The $wgSecureLogin thing was and is a treatment to a symptom of the problem, not its cause. Once the bugs brion mentions are worked through, we should be encouraging all logged-in users to go to, and stay with, SSL. What $wgSecureLogin should do is prompt all visits to Special:UserLogin to be redirected to https, and *not* send them back.
--HM