You could encrypt the passwords using a Javascript library, but then you'd have to store the key somewhere in plaintext. -Nick
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:43 PM, krtulmay <[email protected]> wrote: > > Paul, it looks like you want to save these cleartext passwords across > different Chrome sessions/restarts? > > How do you think Chrome could do it differently using "somewhere is > Chrome's facility" that could save and retrieve data across restarts > that would be different than LocalStorage or Local Database? > > On Sep 14, 12:16 pm, Paul Rosania <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nick, thanks for the reply! > > What I'm running into is the need to store passwords in cleartext for > APIs > > that use basic authentication (over HTTPS, of course). It would be neat > if > > I could store these somewhere in Chrome's facility. It sounds like this > > isn't (yet?) possible. > > > > I can make do for now on my machine, but I would hesitate to release > > something that's storing passwords cleartext in localStorage. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Nick Baum <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Paul, glad to see you're trying it out! > > > You can store data using HTML5 local-storage or databases. Also, if the > API > > > supports OAuth, you could store the tokens instead of the passwords. > > > > > -Nick > > > > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Mohamed Mansour < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> Not yet! > > >> -- Mohamed Mansour > > > > >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Paul Rosania <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > >>> I've been playing with a few addon ideas that work with APIs out > there on > > >>> the Interweb. > > >>> It would be great if there was a sandbox where I could store > passwords > > >>> for APIs that use HTTPS+Basic Auth as security. The alternative for > me so > > >>> far has been to prompt at boot and keep it in memory, which just > doesn't > > >>> feel quite right. (Or, gasp, keep it on disk in clear text.) > > > > >>> Maybe there is a way to do this but I couldn't figure it out! Thanks > for > > >>> any pointers. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
