X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/19e34cb62ec8c891f060cbf9b2340510c7cb0331..badbe8aae3adecf4efba41dc6858b49c7fed633d:/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn b/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn index 32d971548..17ac12b34 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn @@ -18,12 +18,22 @@ Even better would be to only display the cookie note as a warning if the login p > time to check if it took, which is both complicated and probably would > look bad. +>> Might this be possible client-side with javascript? A quick google suggests it is possible: +>> . MJR, want to try adding +>> that? -- [[Will]] + Best of all would be to use URL-based or hidden-field-based session tokens if cookies are not permitted. > This is not very doable since most of the pages the user browses are > static pages in a static location. >> The pages that lose data without cookies (the edit pages, primarily) ->> don't look static. Are they really? --[MJR](http://mjr.towers.org.uk)a +>> don't look static. Are they really? --[MJR](http://mjr.towers.org.uk) >>> As soon as you post an edit page, you are back to a static website. + +>>> It is impossible to get to an edit page w/o a cookie, unless +>>> anonymous edits are allowed, in which case it will save. No data loss. +>>> Since noone is working on this, and the nonsense above has pissed me +>>> off to the point that I will certianly never work on it, I'm going to +>>> close it. --[[Joey]] [[done]]