- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:19:43 -0800
Asbj?rn Ulsberg wrote: > [Response 1] > > HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized > WWW-Authenticate: HTML realm="Administration" > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <html> > .... > <form action="/login"> > <input name="username"> > <input type="password" name="password"> > <input type="submit"> > </form> > </html> > Interesting. If we go down this line I think it's important to MANDATE the names and meanings of the various fields, or provide some other key by which a bot can reliably identify necessary login fields and decide what to put in them. Today the various form autofillers only guess right a little more than half the time in my experience, and even with training and special hackery to eliminate forms that try to disable autofilling, they still miss a shocking number of forms they've seen before. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Refactoring HTML Just Published! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321503635/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA
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