Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
> I added a comment to the talk page.
> 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Akshay.agarwal
> 
> Long story short, we had this discussion in IRC... some people find the 
> concept of AJAX login really alarming from a security perspective, but I 
> think there could (COULD) be some ways to compromise there. There is a 
> little-used concept called Digest Authentication that we could implement 
> in Javascript.

Using AJAX is not more insecure than normal login using POST (which
should be kept for non-js clients). You just need a begin request before
the one that transmits the credentials.


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