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.

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