Browser Remebering Login Password Causes User Edit To Error
Posted: 07 February 2010 11:05 PM   [ Ignore ]
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I signed up to the site, had Firefox remember my password. I then went to my edit profile page and changed a custom member field and clicked submit. I get the “password you submitted is not correct” error. I went back to the edit form and noticed that the password box (name=“password”) one is pre-filled with my password. Obviously firefox is pre-filling what it saved on login and causing the issue.

I did a quick google search and found I can use:

<form AUTOCOMPLETE "off">

or 

<
input type="password" name="password" AUTOCOMPLETE "off"/> 

I tried the second option as the first option would require editing the php file I imagine. Testing the second option, the pre-filled password is gone and I am no longer receiving the error when I save my profile.

My question though, is this a solution for all versions of firefox? What about Chrome or internet explorer, etc?

On google someone wrote:

“I couldn’t get autocomplete = “off” to function consistently enough so I went with a GUID in the end; it was clean enough to code and a little more ‘universal’.  ”

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Posted: 08 February 2010 04:47 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Good evening!

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Posted: 09 February 2010 05:21 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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anthonys,

The question you ask is relating directly to browsers. I can’t help you out on this one unfortunately. I’d do a Google search and see if you can pull up any further information smile

After doing a little research myself, it looks like this was once specific to Internet Explorer, but should work with Firefox, and may or may not work with other browsers.

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