Re: Saving passwords

But my password *is* saved in the forum, but I don't remember how I  
did it.
I'd like to do the same in another vBulletin forum. And being a pack  
rat,
I found this note Scott Maier wrote back in March 2006:

 > You can work around this by being logged out, viewing the page  
source,
 > finding the login form (search for "login form") and then at the  
end of
 > the form remove the last couple of hidden fields, then Redisplay  
the page.
 > Now, enter your username and password and when you login we should  
prompt
 > to save the info and it will also be autofilled for you when you  
come back.

I just tried this on the other forum and it worked. I'm happy.

Beth Katz

On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Troy Brandt wrote:

>
> On Sep 22, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Andrew Malton wrote:
>
>> In most places I visit with a password, Omniweb stores a Web form  
>> password on the Keychain.
>>
>> But at least one place I regularly visit asks for a username and  
>> password which OW doesn't store, and of course I then have to  
>> retype the password everytime (or rather, open the Keychain,  
>> reveal the password, copy it to the Clipboard, and paste it into  
>> the form).
>>
>> So: how does Omniweb decide that a form is the sort that contains  
>> a password, and hence will be saved and restored in the Keychain?
>>
>> (This is a question which probably has an embarassingly easy answer.)
>
> Well, with the feature enabled, it should just work actually. Any  
> form that has a text field and password field should be caught by  
> OmniWeb and it should ask to save your password and repopulate the  
> form on later visits.
>
> However, if the form has more than just two fields it may not work.  
> The form may also be designed to prevent browsers to save the form,  
> our vBulletin forums do this by moving the password out of it's  
> field creating a hash and submitting it that way--OmniWeb never  
> sees the password and thus doesn't think you're submitting a  
> username / password combination.
>
> -Troy
>
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