Re: Login required to see meeting minutes
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 13:38 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, John Babich wrote:
> Unless my proxy is playing tricks on me, which it has been known to
> do, when I tried to view the latest FDSCo meeting minutes at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Docs_IRC_log_20080806, I was
> prompted to log in.
>
> Can we fix this so that anyone can view the FDSCo meeting minutes?
>
Fixed
Was this because John had an expired cookie and that page was HTTP and
not HTTPS?
FWIW, when we first switched over, I was constantly having to log in to
the wiki. We couldn't figure out why until Mike asked if I were trying
to hit the page via HTTP only. Yes, in fact, I was because that was the
URL in my Firefox history, so when I started to type "fedor...", it
would fill out, "http://fedoraproject.org/" and I would go from there.
Because of the way MediaWiki is setup, when you are logged in, the
session is entirely over SSL. Merely switching to an HTTP URL causes
the "Log in" link to appear instead of your logged in account info.
After I did a search and replace in my Firefox history file, this hasn't
been an issue. :)
- Karsten
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