[OSM-talk] Wiki login redirect

Manfred A. Reiter ma.reiter at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 08:50:50 BST 2012


Hi Maarten,

2012/10/18 Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl>:
> I haven't noticed this before a few weeks ago, but when you visit a page in
> the wiki and then login, you are redirected to the main page.  This is not
> very convenient, because logging in after navigating to a page is usually
> for one purpose only: to edit the page. And certainly users that have an
> account don't need to get redirected to the main page.
> It is also not the standard behaviour of wikis. Normally when you login
> there is a "returnto=" field in the URL.
>
> Can this be changed please?

it would be nice to have it like you write ...
I know this behaviour since I'm editing the wiki ;-)

workaround:
press the "back" button in your browser twice,
then reload the page  ... that's it

Manfred



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