How to get computer to save login & password

[CALocklin]

OK, this isn't really an A5 problem but does anybody know how to get the browser to prompt the user about saving the login info so they don't have to type it next time? I have some users who don't want to type their name and password every time they log in.

[Louis Nickerson]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

Cal,

Is Auto Complete the feature you are looking for?

Internet Explorer
Tools
Internet Options
Content
Auto Complete


Louis

[Louis Nickerson]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

Cal,

If this isn't what you are looking for, then I'm guessing that you will need to use cookies to accomplish this task.

Louis

[Tim Kiebert]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

and ....

Firefox - Tools - Options- Privacy - Passwords tab - check 'Remember passwords'

[CALocklin]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

I think you guys are looking in almost the right direction but not quite.

Users who have passwords being saved for other programs do not get this option on my program. In other words, their browser settings should be correct but it doesn't seem to recognized my fields as something to be saved.

Do they have to have a specific name or setting of some kind to trigger the browser to save them?

[Tim Kiebert]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

Sorry Cal,

now you have gone past my knowledge threshhold.

[Steve Wood]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

Passwords are poping in to my Alpha web apps properly (on my pc). I don't think it matters what you name your fields. But it does matter if you changed the name of the field between the time the password was remembered, and now. So, you might delete the rembered Username, close the browser, reopen and try again -- it should then ask if they want to remember the password. If it doesn't ask, then some setting is wrong.

Here is a reference in case you need to reset something.

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=348

[CALocklin]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

Steve, thanks for the reference but that assumes you have seen the popup at least once for your password. In my case, the popup appears on my users computers for other sites but not for mine.

If it doesn't matter, then why doesn't it ask to save all fields as passwords? There's got to be something that triggers it to ask to save passwords and not other fields.

In case it helps, my login and password are just two fields on a regular a5w form. In my case, it doesn't even have any A5 web components on it.

[Steve Wood]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

Is your password a "password field" or just a normal text field? It needs to be defined specifically as a password field in the dialog.

[CALocklin]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

In my case, it doesn't even have any A5 web components on it.

What dialog?

Here's my HTML text:

  <tr>
    <td align=right><span class=t5>Password:</span></td>
    <td><input type="password" name="Pswd" value="<%A5 ? Pswd %>" style="WIDTH:22ex">
  </td></tr>

(You don't see me on this message board very often because I virtually never use web components. My two main web customers had demands that I just wasn't able to meet with web components. The primary one being the need to display 500 or more records on one result page. Web components seem to crash somewhere around 100 records - at least they used to.)

[Steve Wood]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

Thanks for the code, that clarified things. Here's the answer:

You can't create just a password field and have it autocomplete. You can create a text field and have it autocomplete, but a password has to be part of a FORM and have an associated Username field in that form. (Based on observeration, not empirical knowledge). Go find some html from a page where the password is remembered, and use that as a model. You can fake the Username requirement, it can always be the same value for them.

[CALocklin]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

Thanks for spending time answering this Steve.

This is in a form. The beginning of the form and table (immediately before the previous code) is:

<table align=center>
<form action="<%A5 ? Request.script_name %>" method=post>
  <tr>
    <td align=right><span class=t5>Login Number:</span></td>
    <td><input type="text" name="Login_name" value="<%a5 ? Login_name %>" style="WIDTH:22ex">
  </td></tr>
  ... the next row of the table is what what shown previously ...

Are you saying that changing this name="Login_name" to name="Username" may be enough to solve the problem?

(If you're wondering why the value of Login_name is set to a variable, there are certain situations where the user may come back to this page with the login name already set. One is when they go to the 'register' page. After their initial registration the login_name is saved and automatically entered into the field when they return.)

BTW, I took a look at some source code of login pages but (a) some also used tons of JavaScript, (b) not all have a 'username' field, and (c) some set an autocomplete value (on/off). Mostly this exercise just created more confusion. In one page that did ask to save the password, the name of the User Name field was name="IDToken1" and the name of the password field was name="IDToken2" yet IE still asked to save the password.

[Steve Wood]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

Guess I'd have to see the page in action. Your snippit does not include the rest of the form.

[CALocklin]

Re: How to get computer to save login & password

OK, thanks. I'll work on it myself awhile. If I can't get it I may contact you directly.