From: Paul Mison Date: 12:52 on 08 Apr 2005 Subject: Browsers Remembering htaccess and login details Dear Camino: why can't you tell the difference between the basic auth that this page hides behind and the login details that it also uses? Why do you keep overwriting one with the other? Safari can tell the difference, you know. One's basic auth, the other's a website password, in a form. Work it out. 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. Grargh.
From: Philip Newton Date: 17:14 on 08 Apr 2005 Subject: Re: Browsers Remembering htaccess and login details 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?
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