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

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