109381 - Posting a message to hometheaterforum creates a new password entry in Password Manager everytime

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 153986

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect)

Description

[James Zubb]

When replying or posting a new message to the hometheaterforum website a new
username/password entry is entered into the Password Manager.  After posting
more than one message we are presented with a "Select User" dialog, this gets
very messy after posting for a while.  Looking at the password file it is
storing the subject line along with the Username/Password, not correct for this
page. 

I have tested this with 2001110603 on Win98SE and 20011110903 on Win2000+sp2. 
The same behavior is observed on both systems.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.hometheaterforum.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi
2. Click the register tab and sign up for a username/password
3. Enter a forum (there is a testing forum at the bottom)
4. Reply or create a new post, enter username/password, click submit
5. Reply or create a second post, username/password is filled in automatically,
click submit
6. open Password Manager, two entries for HomeTheaterForum are listed.

Comment 1

[James Zubb]

Attachment: My password file

Here is my password file after posting three times.

Comment 2

[Stephen P. Morse]

So the heuristic that is used by password manager does not work for 
message-posting sites.  But it does work for many other types of sites.  My 
advice, therefore, is don't use password manager on such sites -- these are not 
the sites that the heuristic was designed for.

Comment 3

[James Zubb]

So you are basically saying use IE to view message board sites since it can do
this fine? 

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

reopening to dupe properly. this should have been done the first time with one
of the existing bugs.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153986 ***