Author: enrico.daga
Description:
Session cookie is sent to the browser for non-logged-in users (IPs) only if user navigate through Special:UserLogin page. After that, even if the user doesn't log-in, the cookie is created and you can see the user's IP address in the top right of the page.
I don't know if can be considered a bug, but I had some problems for that using some extensions that needed a session cookie, of exammple ConfirmEdit, an extension that use math operations to prevent editing by bots.
I use that only for not-logged users...
I patched my installation adding to my LocalSettings some code extracted from Special:UserLogin, from the execute() function.
But a fix for the default installation of MediaWiki could be correct, I think.
I think that could be useful to open session cookie for not logged-in users also.
Thank you all
-enrico
ps: I found this first time with version 1.11.1, and then also with 1.12.0
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement