[Xevion]

I despise how my university's login system just redirects several times (sometimes getting stuck, reloading and redirecting multiples times, and then occasionally shitting me out on the logged out screen, wondering WTF happened).

I cannot fathom how their IT staff allows things to be that way. One redirect ideally. Two max. Three, and I'm assuming you don't know what you're doing, at all.

[immibis]

One reason is to set session ID cookies on several different domains.

[mschuster91]

The problem with university login systems - at least here in Germany/Europe - is this global federation system that's also backing EduRoam. Authentication flows there are insanely complex, not to mention dealing with known quirks of some university's implementation...

[rrr_oh_man]

> I cannot fathom how their IT staff allows things to be that way. One redirect ideally. Two max. Three, and I'm assuming you don't know what you're doing, at all.

Welcome to Microsoft/Live/Bing/Skype/Edge/...

[imp0cat]

If only it were that simple. You can thank Apple, Google and their war on cookies for that.