William Allen Simpson wrote: > While I'm thinking about it: why doesn't universal login work from secure? > After all, the centralauth credentials seem to exist, so the various *wiki > sites should be able to find them automatically? (...) > But the link from > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Special:MergeAccount > > to meta > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login > > doesn't use https and/or show me logged in! :-(
You would be logged in if you used the secure meta link: http://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Help:Unified_login When you log into secure, you're logged in everywhere, but only on their secure version (that's done on purpose). Links between wikis taking you out of secure are a known problem (although I think enwiki has some javascript to reduce it). > Contrarily, the interwiki links from Main_Page at the bottom work fine, but > the language links on the left side do not.... > > Looking at the source, it seems somebody went through some template > hoops to > make the secure links. But the <prefix><colon> system should just work! Sure they should. It's the open bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5440 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
