I originally filed that bug in Ikiwiki, but now I starting to think this is a problem specific to the branchable deployment here:
https://ikiwiki.info/bugs/cannot_login/
Basically, on ikiwiki.info and git-annex.branchable.com, if I use plain HTTP, it is impossible to login. However, going to HTTPS works fine and I am already logged in.
It is unclear to me why HTTP is still supported if HTTPS just works out of the box: it should just be a redirection and all traffic should be in HTTPS. -- ?anarcat
Ah and do note that I am editing this site in HTTP without problem - presumably it's how I logged in here so it works.
It's up to individial site admins whether a site is configured to redirect http to https or support both.
There's nothing https-specific in the login interface. I can log into ikiwiki.info using http just fine.
Please describe what you mean by "impossible to login". What do you do to login? What does it say?
it says:
to post this comment, I had to login to this very wiki. i tried to login through HTTP, and now it failed with the
time_bad_sigerror. flip to HTTPS and I am logged in fine again.so i feel something fishy is going on with HTTPS.