yes, especially when using SSL it should be very secure

> We do too, but as Ian also said, it only remembers the values to fill
> the fields with. I'm pretty sure your idea about using hidden fields
> won't work: I doubt browsers would fill them and I think browsers
> differ in when they fill the fields (Chrome seems to be waiting onload
> to *look* into the password manager, so it fills the fields *after*
> onload)
hmm, I don't know for all browsers, but it definitely works in FF
I am using a static username and password field in my main html page
and in onModuleLoad() I can easily read the contents of those fields
currently I am only using this as default-values for our login form
but it would be no problem to auto-login the users

On Jun 18, 11:40 pm, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18 juin, 18:02, mars1412 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Isn't that insecure regarding 
> > CSFR?http://www.openajax.org/whitepapers/Ajax%20and%20Mashup%20Security.ph...
> > I must admit that I am a noob regarding security of Web-Apps, so
> > please anyone correct me, if I misunderstood.
>
> As Ian said, it's only insecure if you use that same cookie to
> authenticate requests to your server (which we do not do: we're
> passing the ticket within an Authorization header with a specially
> crafted authenticate scheme: "Authorization: UbicAuth <ticket>"; in
> other words, we're using and extending HTTP authentication
> mechanisms).
> It doesn't work for file uploads though, as they have to use a
> FormPanel (I'm thinking about using some Flash, as I doubt Gears or
> BrowserPlus would meet our client's requirements...). In that case,
> we're passing the ticket in the URL; and because we're using SSL/TLS,
> we're safe (not to mention that the app is in a WAN, inaccessible from
> the Internet).
>
> I'm not a security expert but I think we're pretty secure, probably
> more than other web apps already deployed at that same client (not to
> mention apps that were deployed before CSRF was really identified and
> haven't been updated since then).
>
> > Another question is: why don't you try to use the passwordmanager of
> > the browsers?
>
> We do too, but as Ian also said, it only remembers the values to fill
> the fields with. I'm pretty sure your idea about using hidden fields
> won't work: I doubt browsers would fill them and I think browsers
> differ in when they fill the fields (Chrome seems to be waiting onload
> to *look* into the password manager, so it fills the fields *after*
> onload)
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