For anyone who missed it four months ago, this subthread is in response to https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-February/084714.html
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I just had to separately and manually login three times (on Meta, then on > > Wikipedia, then on MediaWiki.org) in order to be logged in on most > wikis. I > > don't find any page explaining whether it's normal for global login to > > require entering my password 3+ times. If it's expected and documented, I > > can stop worrying. > > The expectation for single sign-on is that you sign-on a single time and > then you are signed on everywhere. If that's not what happens, feel free to > file a bug, ideally with a HAR file or something equivalent. > Note: A "HAR file" is a log of the HTTP requests and responses. Without some kind of log like this your bug is unlikely to receive much feedback beyond a request to provide one, since the process depends heavily on the details of the HTTP requests. But first, check your cookie settings. If you have third-party cookies blocked, single sign-on just isn't going to work because it has to rely on third-party cookies to function. An "Only allow from sites I've visited" setting may work, depending on how exactly the browser implements it. Specifically, if the browser either ignores the cookies sent during the redirect to loginwiki or refuses to send them back to loginwiki for the <img> or <script> checks, single sign-on just isn't going to work for you. Similarly, if it ignores the cookies sent by the <img> tag for the other domains (or an ad blocker or privacy blocker blocks the 1x1 images), those other domains are going to have to rely on the first-visit script to log you in and will be subject to the caveat that if you visited them before logging in the first-visit script won't run. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
