Rick Merrill wrote:
Connie wrote:
On 19/10/2013 04:54, regz91 wrote:
Just go to the login web page and login into that page. After
logging in SeaMonkey will prompt you to save the password
Except it doesn't on all sites.
I've found some that will and some that won't. I put it down to
the version of SM I'm using currently (2.16). Gene seems to be
using 2.15.
yes, some sites do not permit storage of password on local computer.
Some bank sites fir example use this as an extra security measure.
They do let you store as cookies some "security questions" if you say
that computer is private.
The only way a site can "not permit" you to store a password etc. on
your local computer is by refusing to set a cookie containing the
password. A determined user can get around such a site in any number of
ways, either by using a password manager or by saving passwords in a
separate text file.
On the other hand, any site that requires a login generally requires the
ability to set a cookie whose function is to answer "this computer is
logged in as... " whenever asked. Those cookies generally don't contain
the password; instead they contain some derived character string that
makes sense to the server but cannot be used against the user by an
eavesdropper.
I'd be interested in knowing why SeaMonkey (and its predecessors) are
unable/unwilling to save passwords for certain sites. My guess is that
those site's designers have chosen formats that SM doesn't recognize as
username+password.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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