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Lost message text when sending PM

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It turns out that I was logged out at the time I was typing up the PM (I cleared my cookies for another site).  So, after I clicked the button to send the PM, it asked me to login, which I did.  It then said it would bring me back to the page I was on, which it did.. but the text box was empty (so I would have had to retype the entire message).  I checked the Sent folder just in case, and my PM wasn't in there, so I believe it was lost. 

I know that passing this type of postdata around can be a pain (perhaps my knowledge is incomplete, but I think you'd have to send my message to the login screen, then to the redirecting page, then finally back to the PM page.. ugh!).  Since this situation is unusual, I would have been fine with having my submit redirected back to the edit page, with an error message saying that I wasn't logged in and that my message would be lost.  Then, I could have copied my message to the clipboard, logged in, and re-sent.