From 447d3ae258070be5e421b17b2aef4fe80031583c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://mjr.towers.org.uk/" Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:20:30 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Further details --- doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn b/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn index e2d5a352b..bd52f1c21 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/login_page_should_note_cookie_requirement.mdwn @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ At the moment, you go through the login shuffle and then are told that cookies a > websites that have a login require cookies. Such warnings used to be > common, but few sites bother with them anymore. --[[Joey]] +>> Very few websites break without cookies. Even fewer lose data. +>> Can ikiwiki avoid being below average by default? --[MJR](http://mjr.towers.org.uk) + Even better would be to only display the cookie note as a warning if the login page doesn't receive a session cookie. > I considered doing this before, but it would require running the cgi once @@ -15,3 +18,5 @@ Best of all would be to use URL-based or hidden-field-based session tokens if co > 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)