[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 742 webui: adjust behavior of bounce url

[Petr Vobornik]

On 4.9.2014 01:25, Endi Sukma Dewata wrote:
> On 8/21/2014 11:06 AM, Petr Vobornik wrote:
>> based  on:
>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-devel/2014-August/msg00073.html
>>
>> - bounce url param was renamed from 'redirect' to 'url'
>> - support for 'delay' param added
>>
>> Behavior:
>>
>> - "Continue to next page" link is shown if 'url' is present
>> - page is no longer automatically redirected if 'url' is present
>> - automatic redirect is controlled by 'delay' param - it specifies
>>    number of seconds until redirection
>> - info message 'You will be redirected in Xs' is show to notify
>>    the user that something will happen. It's useful even if delay
>>    is 0 or negative because redirection might be slow.
>> - counter is decremented every second
>> - delay is ignored if parsed as NaN
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4440
>
> ACK.

Pushed to:
master: 050431c4dd70f024b1644137fb0ad4881ed9e32b
ipa-4-1: c946029ba304efe808106da13e1bfd58135821be


>
> Just one thing, when the delay=0 and the direction happens quickly, the
> users might see the confirmation and the redirection messages displayed
> briefly on the screen but they cannot read it because it's too quick,
> which might leave them wondering what it was.
>
> I think delay=0 is a special case where we want a seamless integration
> with 3rd party application. If the password reset is completed
> successfully, it should just display the next page in the 3rd party
> application. Users shouldn't see a 'redirection' message. To them it's
> all one application.
>

On the other hand it is handy if they delay is not small, e.g., > 2s, 
because user sees that something is happening.

Added to a list of things for discussion with Kyle.
-- 
Petr Vobornik