Feature #6815
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form lost on logout
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Description
Sometimes, i write a form in an issue, and when i submit it, i'm redirected to the login form because my session has expired. Then, i login and am redirected to the previous form… void _"
It would be nice that form data would be saved in session or cookie before redirecting to login form, then refill the form with saved data.
Updated by Daniel Felix almost 12 years ago
- Tracker changed from Defect to Feature
Any news on this?
I change this to a feature request.
Well, it would be possible to add some kind of warning (with some javascript) which warns, if your session is going to expire. What do you think about this solution?
Updated by Sam Kington over 11 years ago
This happens to me all the time - well, not all the time, but enough that I've downloaded a Safari extension to save the contents of textareas in case I'm logged out without warning, and I've lost all of the stuff I was just typing.
This was a solved problem in the late 1990s. If you get a request but you're not logged in, stash all of the request information (URL and form parameters) in hidden fields of the login form, or a server-side session, or a cookie, or whatever, and once you've logged in send that stored data back to the page it was originally sent to.
It is quite ridiculous that when discussing the system we use to keep track of bug and feature requests at $WORK, I have to tell people "BTW, you might end up being logged out and losing all your work".