David E. Ross wrote:
On 3/16/2016 5:17 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
All this means that, as David mentioned, the password manager has no
way to know that the password requested on the second page is in any
way related to the username requested on the first page. It may be
obvious to you that you're being asked for a username and password.
It may be possible to do something that tries to work it out, but it
probably wouldn't be completely reliable (and then people would
probably complain about the odd time it doesn't get it right). Even
determining that a given field is for a username, and not a search
term or some other bit of information, is not necessarily easy.
Logically, it should be possible. Suppose the password manager has a
record with
domain <whatever.com>
login "YourName"
password "StealMe"
When the user visits a page in <whatever.com> that contains a "login"
field, it should know to enter "YourName." When the user clicks and is
taken to another page in <whatever.com> that contains a "password"
field, it should know to enter "StealMe."
I don't claim that password managers are designed that way. But
logically it should be possible. It's like going to 411.com and asking
for a person's phone number on one page and the same person's street
address on another page -- both pieces of data are contained in the same
record, and the database returns one piece in response to one input and
the other piece in response to the other input.
That indeed is working for me.
So, what do I have to do to get it to work that way for me?
Larry S.
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