On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
