Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:46 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: >> If there's a way to improve the general login workflow (AJAX, CORS, >> whatever), I'd like to see that implemented before this checkbox is ripped >> out. > > Doesn't seem hard. Why don't we set an extra cookie when you log in, > let's say "globalLoginRequired". Then the JS on every page should > check for that cookie, and if it's present, send some background > requests to log you in on the other sites. To allow for browsers that > don't support CORS, we can still do image loads as now. Stick them > unobtrusively in the footer, or make them display: none. Once the > images have all loaded, clear the globalLoginRequired cookie.
I went to file a bug about killing the login screen with CentralAuth, but it looks like a bug was already filed a few years ago: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15911 ("Successful login message should not be displayed when using CentralAuth"). MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
