On 2/14/09 4:01 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > 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.
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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
