[OT] digest login autofill
Added by yurylankovskiy over 6 years ago
I'm not sure if I will get help on this here, but worth shooting a topic.
I would like to prevent browser autofilling user credentials in the digest login form. What happens is the browsers asks to save user credentials after digest login form submit, and on agreement the browser caches the credentials and next time autofills the digest login form. I would like for this NOT to happen, I have searched the web for a few hours, everyone is only referring to autocomplete attribute in the form element, however, here I cannot control the form but maybe there is or would be a feature in the lighttpd auth configuration to prevent autofill of the user credentials?
Perhaps someone had a similar idea in mind and has a solution to share?
Thank you!
Replies (3)
RE: digest login autofill - Added by yurylankovskiy over 6 years ago
Worth mentioning, this occurs in Chrome 62.0.3202.94 and Firefox 57.0, that I'm able to test ... but according to my searching this has occurred previously as well, and the autocomplete option has been changing.
RE: digest login autofill - Added by stbuehler over 6 years ago
It isn't (and shouldn't be) your decision whether a user should be able to store a password or not.
And it actually is a really stupid idea to prevent password managers from working; it means users will write down passwords, put them under their keyboard, or use the same password on every site.
RE: digest login autofill - Added by yurylankovskiy over 6 years ago
I agree with you, however, this is a client decision, my job is to research information on this topic and find a possible implementation.
But as I understand there's no solution and will not be implemented for the lack of usefulness.