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



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