Yes, that's clear BJ, and you're right. Many browsers have "password manager" 
sorts of things that allow the user to locally save passwords in a usually 
encrypted store of some sort, and that is very different from a cookie and not 
anything the server can control.

-David


On Jul 31, 2010, at 2:22 PM, BJ Freeman wrote:

> clarification
> I said the browser does
> when you login to a site the browser ask if you want to store the login 
> (userid and password).
> this has nothing to-do with ofbiz.
> 
> Wai sent the following on 7/31/2010 11:35 AM:
>> 
>> BJ,
>> does ofbiz actually store the password in the cookie?  Because a cookie is
>> really a text file, anybody who has access to a browser cache would be able
>> to see it.
>> A regular person can see the contents of a cookie just by typing in
>> "javascript:document.cookie" in the address of the browser.
>> 
>>> From your previous posting, I take it that ofbiz should be run in an
>> intranet environment.  But that would not quite work for people using ofbiz
>> ecommerce app.  Since the ecommerce app stores the username in the cookie as
>> well.
>> Wai

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