Re: Browsers Remembering htaccess and login details

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From: Philip Newton
Subject: Re: Browsers Remembering htaccess and login details
Date: 17:14 on 08 Apr 2005
On Apr 8, 2005 1:52 PM, Paul Mison <paulm@xxxx.xxx> wrote:
> While we're at it, why can't either of you remember more than one
> website password per site? Admittedly website development leads to
> some edge cases (most people probably don't have three different
> Yahoo! webmail accounts), but I do want to be able to log in as me,
> and as other people too. IE for Windows seems to manage. Some would
> say it's about the only thing it does right, but it manages.

My hate in this respect with Firefox is that it seems to update its
internal passwords if it thinks it can tell that you've changed the
password on a website.

Which is usually fine, but not if the change was some JavaScript
clearing the password field because the password is transmitted hashed
in a hidden form field. (Specifically, this is a problem with
LiveJournal and Firefox.) I don't like having my
password-stored-in-the-browser reset to the empty string each time I
use the site. Just use what I entered, OK, not what the JavaScript
changed it to?
-- 
Philip Newton <philip.newton@xxxxx.xxx>

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