You can log in on any public page; first go to the page,
(additional emphasis mine)
I personally believe that you may have imagined that in quite a few years (albeit many less than you) at the Monastery I should have noticed: indeed, I did notice. No offense taken, BTW: I'm clearly stating so because I realize my tone may suggest the contrary... OTOH you say the right thing: "go to!" And if I have to go to some page, it's not that much of a difference whether I go there before or after the login respectively.
Of course, your remark could just be a suggestion to save a bookmark to the given page I like and to login from that one. This does make sense. But, believe me: there are situations in which I don't want to save a bookmark anyway. Or I may just be on a public machine. Or at a friend's house.
To put it straight and clear: this is not a feature without which I can't live. But it would be so supposedly easy to implement, and lightweight, that it wouldn't be too bad to have... I login, and I'm in my favourite page to start my visits @ PM, period.
Or, even for non-public pages, do it in one fell swoop, like
http://domain/?node_id=nnnnnn;op=login;user=uu;passwd=pp;expires=%2B10
+y
This, instead, I ignored altogether: thank you! (Although I doubt I'll be using it...)
| [reply]
[d/l]
[select] |
| [reply] |
I'm unsure how to parse your first sentence. However, I think you may be pointing out that the login form has a node_id=XXXX hidden inside of it in order to determine which node gets loaded when one submits the form. Obviously, this node_id can't be set to blazar's personal favorite node's ID if we don't know yet that blazar is the monk who is going to use the form to log in. Which belies the "easy to implement" claim (since the point seems to be to avoid the extra round-trip which blazar must lack the patience for since there are so many ways to get to your favorite node with a single click after login and it isn't even hard to use Free-Nodelet JavaScript to eliminate the need to click).
But it would be possible for the heart of the login code to note that $q->param('node_id') is login and override it (for POST requests). But that also strikes me as a rather sloppy hack. Perhaps not unacceptably crufty, though.
| [reply]
[d/l] |
So...what's your favorite page to start your PM visits?
I personally believe to have confessed this detail several times, so you could be able to find out yourself by wandering through my mumblings. Of course, you have better things to do. But if I now tell you explicitly what that page is, you may think that I'm bad boy! ;)
| [reply]
[d/l] |