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Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 23 June 2020 17:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] logged off of DT
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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    > I can report the same.  This is not a big problem where the datatracker
    > only offers a certain page to logged-in users.  But where the detailed
    > options on a page, or even the further processing of an option (draft
    > submission!) differ based on whether I’m logged in or not, that is an
    > issue.

I would like all the pages to have all of the buttons, with a login demanded
if I need it.
Yes, that could be confusing if AD-only buttons are presented to non-AD users.

    > I would propose to build dt.ietf.org in such a way that it always asks
    > the user to login before allowing any access.  datatracker.ietf.org
    > could keep its old behavior, so no change for the uninitiated.

I could live with that, but I'd rather just have some kind of long-term
(stateless) cookie that suggests to the site that I want to be logged in.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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