[josm-dev] trac: please provide a link to go back to last page after login

Sebastian Klein bastikln at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 8 16:56:28 GMT 2010


Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Sebastian Klein wrote:
> 
>> Maybe, but for us mortals it does not perform this magic. Instead, my
>> workflow is as follows:
>>  click a link to a ticket;
>>  click login;
>>  enter credentials;
> 
> This does my browser automatically. :-)
> 

ok... let the browser enter credentials; hit ok

>>  the main site is loaded;
> 
> ...
> 
>>  accept invalid certificate;
> 
> This also. It is self-signed, not invalid!

That's true, unfortunately it is presented as if it was a security risk 
in the modern browsers.

> 
>>  click browser 'go back' button;
>>  change http:// to https://;
>>  reload.
> 
> Well, when you change http to https before you login, then it works. Seems 
> protocol crossing links aren't preserved.

It doesn't work for my browser (Opera). But I think, I can cope with 
that. :)

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Basti




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