[OpenID] The "keep context" problem

[Evan Prodromou]

On Fri, 2007-15-06 at 07:27 +0100, Martin Atkins wrote:

> This is not a problem inherent to OpenID. The Mediawiki plugin's RP code 
> is flawed.

It's not flawed, it's just not built for idiotic sites that cripple
their wiki functionality by requiring a login to edit. By Ward
Cunningham's definition, that's not a wiki.

> The latter is, in my opinion, the best from a user experience 
> perspective, but I would guess is near-impossible to do in situations 
> like the MediaWiki plugin when you're trying to shoe-horn OpenID support 
> into an app that was traditionally all about local user accounts.

No, it's actually quite easy. It's on the agenda for an upcoming
release. I've got the code cut for it already, just need to do some
production testing.

>  I'd be 
> satisfied if the MediaWiki plugin would just do the first of these.

I loathe you, Martin Atkins.

-Evan
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