I'd like to write an extension to manage cached HTTP passwords. I've
come up with two approaches:
1. Use the history to get a list of locations that might have cached
passwords.
2. Simply get a list of cached passwords
Neither of these are possible with the current
The only interface available via XPCOM (and therefore to extensions) is
nsIHttpAuthManager. If you glance at it, you’ll see that the methods let
you:
* Get one username, password, and domain
* Store one username, password, and domain
* Remove everything
nsHttpAuthCache has a method, ClearAuthEntry, to let you remove a single
entry. Option one (that uses the history) would just need to expose this
via the interface. An alternative might be clearing the entry if
SetAuthIdentity is called with an empty username and password (are there
systems that require authentication, but use an empty username and
password?)
I could add a way to list entries (option two) but doing so requires
returning an 2d array of string search results or exposing a variant of
nsHttpAuthEntry and returning an array of those.
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