Saving passwords

[Troy Brandt]

On Sep 22, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Andrew Malton wrote:

> In most places I visit with a password, Omniweb stores a Web form  
> password on the Keychain.
>
> But at least one place I regularly visit asks for a username and  
> password which OW doesn't store, and of course I then have to  
> retype the password everytime (or rather, open the Keychain, reveal  
> the password, copy it to the Clipboard, and paste it into the form).
>
> So: how does Omniweb decide that a form is the sort that contains a  
> password, and hence will be saved and restored in the Keychain?
>
> (This is a question which probably has an embarassingly easy answer.)

Well, with the feature enabled, it should just work actually. Any  
form that has a text field and password field should be caught by  
OmniWeb and it should ask to save your password and repopulate the  
form on later visits.

However, if the form has more than just two fields it may not work.  
The form may also be designed to prevent browsers to save the form,  
our vBulletin forums do this by moving the password out of it's field  
creating a hash and submitting it that way--OmniWeb never sees the  
password and thus doesn't think you're submitting a username /  
password combination.

-Troy