On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 12:12 PM Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote:
> John McKown wrote: > > >So I type the password in on a text editor, then cut'n'paste it into the > web site. > > Good approach where you can't see what you typed in the first place and > you don't want to go the hassle to reset your id. > > But - What do you do if that website does not allow cut/copy/paste in the > first place? Yes, it is about security or some other lame excuses, > something about blocking website robot crawlers, spiders or weirdos ... > > I have encountered such pages where I want to copy into or out from some > text and then it is as if my mouse clickery is disabled/broken, or so it > looks to me. > > Such websites also don't allow marking/selecting text for cut/copy/paste > operations. > > If I repeat same actions on say NotePad, then such operations are suddenly > working. > > I would be crying ashamed if I design such a website, but then it is just > me... ;-) > Luckily, I haven't run into a "no cut'n'paste" web site. If it were one which I needed, I would official complain, but grit my teeth and endure it. If I didn't need the site, I would simply inform them that they lost a customer by being idiots. > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
