On 2014-07-09, 16:23, Chris Hecker wrote:
> I would think the current post could be stuffed into the post_error.html
> page (or its replacement) when it's generated, then carried across to
> the login page, and then reposted, so it wouldn't require javascript at
> all. I haven't thought about it too much, though.

That could work.

But keep in mind that the user would upload the data to the central 
weblogin server when they were redirected there, then the data would be 
downloaded in the login page, uploaded again when the user submitted the 
login page -- and this would download/upload/download cycle would repeat 
each time the user had an authentication error such as a mistyped 
password -- and then downloaded again to the user's browser when the 
user was redirected back to the cosign-protected web server, and then 
finally uploaded to the cosign-protected web server (assuming that the 
web server didn't bounce them back again to satisfy an additional factor 
or for some other reason).

Now image that the message the user was adding to the forum thread that 
triggered the reauthentication event included a 100 MB video attachment 
and that the user was on a slow broadband connection at home.

I do think that this problem might be solvable, I just wanted to point 
out that the solution should be carefully designed -- I think there are 
a number of "interesting" edge cases and issues that would have to be 
considered.

In the meantime, individual institutions that use cosign could modify 
their post_error.html to include a link to Lazarus and similar browser 
plugins so that the user could install one and avoid the loss next time.

-- 
   Mark Montague
   m...@catseye.org


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