Item1711: Some authentication services do not pass on parameters

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I have encountered a problem with some corporate authentication services, which strip URL parameters from redirects. Since the original request is passed in foswiki_redirect_cache this means the request is lost. It's easy to fix, by simply rewriting the URL to include the cache ID rather than using a param, but this requires a small change in UI.pm to support it.

It's a four-line patch in UI.pm and doesn't affect the other functionality in any way. I would really, really like it in 1.0.6.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 11 Jun 2009

After raising the question on IRC, I concluded that there is no point to keeping the "parameter passing" method. It's perfectly fine to always pass on the redirect cache in the path info. So I changed the code accordingly, and hopefully we won't have any further issues.

MichaelTempest highlighted the fact that there is no real point to passing the web/topic in the path info for a login, though that would be trickier to get rid of so I didn't try,

-- CrawfordCurrie - 12 Jun 2009