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login page redirect to referer is confusing if referer is sign up page. #1152

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openstreetmap-trac opened this issue Jul 23, 2021 · 1 comment

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Reporter: thewinch[at]gmail.com
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 12.18am, Sunday, 7th September 2008]

Go to http://www.openstreetmap.org [[BR]]
Log out if you are logged in.[[BR]]
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Click the sign up link that points to http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new [[BR]]
Click the log in link that now points to http://www.openstreetmap.org/login?referer=%2Fuser%2Fnew [[BR]]
Login[[BR]]
The login page logs you in and redirects you back to the sign up page.[[BR]]
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The sign up page shows the login and sign up links indicating you are not logged in. Click the login link again and repeat the cycle.[[BR]]
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It took me a few attempts until I realised what was going on. Perhaps the sign up link should make you log out first or at list indicate you are loged in like other pages on the site.

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Author: tomhughes
[Added to the original trac issue at 3.07pm, Sunday, 7th September 2008]

(In [10537]) Run web authorisation for all non-api requests. Closes #1152.

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