Closed Bug 225309 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

usernames and passwords in urls are not handled well

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 130327

People

(Reporter: tom, Assigned: bryner)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031109 Firebird/0.7+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031109 Firebird/0.7+ for url of form http://username:password@someplace.com, the whole URL including the password is stored in the history and the user doenst get an option to save the password. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. go to url of form http://username:password@someplace Actual Results: goes to page. username and password is kept in the address bar and stored in history Expected Results: Ask if password should be saved in password manager. Remove username/password from url in address bar, do no store username/password in history
This is not a bug. This behaviour is by design. It could possibly become a feature, though. --> enh --> All/All.
Severity: normal → enhancement
OS: MacOS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130327 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
v.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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