Difference between revisions of "EmailConfirmation/Preferences"

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* When you click the link in the first confirmation email you are sent, it actually works
 
* The values of disabled controls are ignored or processed correctly.
 
* The values of disabled controls are ignored or processed correctly.
  

Revision as of 21:20, 2 April 2008

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What (summary)

Input controls (text, checkbox, radiobutton etc.) having DISABLED property set, do not participate as arguments in a POST request. The target page which expects these arguments will get nil values for these controls even if they have a different value. Hence the target page may process wrong values for some disabled controls. This problem can be seen in Special:Preferences.

Why this is important

  • We dont want to process wrong values for an input control.
  • AlertsOnByDefault becomes useless.

DoneDone

  • When you click the link in the first confirmation email you are sent, it actually works
  • The values of disabled controls are ignored or processed correctly.

Steps to produce the problem in My Preferences

  • Make a new account at aboutus.org
  • Log in
  • Go to 'my preferences' in the sidebar. (You'll notice some checkboxes checked in the E-mail section which are also disabled).
  • Click 'Save' (You've not changed any setting)
  • The disabled checkboxes which were checked before, are no longer unchecked.
  • Reason: 'What (summary)'

Steps to circumvent the problem in My Preferences

  • Make a new account at aboutus.org
  • Log in
  • Go to 'my preferences'. You'll notice some checkboxes checked in the E-mail section are also disabled. If you click save now, they will be overwritten.
  • Click "Confirm your e-mail address" link
  • Ignore the red message telling you "A confirmation code has already been e-mailed ..."
  • Click the "Mail a confirmation code" button
  • Go to 'my preferences'. You'll notice the checkboxes are still disabled. If you click save now, they will still be overwritten.
  • Go to your email, click on the confirmation link in the second email you've received (the first one never works)
  • Go to 'my preferences'. Checkboxes are no longer disabled. If you click save now, they won't be overwritten.

Steps to get to DoneDone



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