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?
Thanks, Erik
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.
On 2/14/09 4:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Erik Moellererik@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 Vibberbrion@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.
It will be used by 100% of end-users when it exists; if you want to opt-in you can just go to the SSL site manually for now. :)
-- brion
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
It will be used by 100% of end-users when it exists; if you want to opt-in you can just go to the SSL site manually for now. :)
By end-users I mean third-party administrators of MediaWiki installations, not users of Wikimedia sites.
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