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Bug 58637 - Users should be redirected directly to the login page if logging in is required, instead of being shown an error
Users should be redirected directly to the login page if logging in is requir...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 15484
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User login and signup (Other open bugs)
1.23.0
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2013-12-18 10:26 UTC by Scott Martin (http://enwp.org/user:scott)
Modified: 2014-07-15 13:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Scott Martin (http://enwp.org/user:scott) 2013-12-18 10:26:08 UTC 
When attempting to access a resource that requires a login - eg. Special:Watchlist - an un-logged-in user receives a message to that effect, with a link to Special:Login. Submitting that form returns the user to the required resource.

The intermediate page is redundant; a better user experience would be to forward the user to Special:UserLogin and present the message there. This is how most modern web applications handle the process.

This is quite similar to bug 10868 which was closed in 2011 as WONTFIX for reasons to do with secure login. I don't believe that should be an issue with this improvement.
Comment 1 Scott Martin (http://enwp.org/user:scott) 2013-12-18 11:12:04 UTC 
I forgot to add - until recently, submitting Special:UserLogin would result in another intermediate page informing the user that they were logged in. Removing this page would be symmetrical with that improvement.
Comment 2 Bartosz Dziewoński 2014-02-20 00:35:39 UTC 
I think I fixed this a couple months ago with I43ceaddb.
Comment 3 Bartosz Dziewoński 2014-02-20 00:38:15 UTC 
Ah, no, I didn't; I misunderstood the report, sorry.

I don't think I agree, though – I prefer the current behavior.
Comment 4 Scott Martin (http://enwp.org/user:scott) 2014-02-20 12:57:42 UTC 
Can I ask why? To be quite frank, it makes us look very old-fashioned.
Comment 5 Bartosz Dziewoński 2014-02-20 14:43:12 UTC 
I don't really have a well-articulated reason, feel free to ignore me :)
Comment 6 Scott Martin (http://enwp.org/user:scott) 2014-02-24 12:31:47 UTC 
:)

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Comment 7 Bartosz Dziewoński 2014-07-15 13:06:57 UTC 
This actually has a much older report, huh.

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