Why make the login page to a single page application a separate page?

Posted by ryanzec on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by ryanzec
Published on 2012-10-25T19:34:08Z Indexed on 2012/10/25 23:15 UTC
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I am wondering why it seems to be popular to have the login page of a SPA be a separate page that is not page of the SPA (as in loaded and send data through ajax requests)?

I only thing I can think of is security but I can't think a specific security reason. I mean the only thing that come to mind is that if your login page in part of the SPA, it sends the username/password through ajax which can be seen by such tools like firebug or web inspector however even if you send it as a normal POST request, there are other tools that can easily capture this data (like fiddler, httpscoop, etc...).

Is there something I am missing?

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