138463 - Username:password displayd in autocomplete

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 88771

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Jeff Bhav]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041718

Whenever you type on the address bar
http://username:password@www.<website name> it goes into autocomplete/history. 

Next time you type http://username: 
The history bar shows the username/password. This is inconsistant with Netscape
4.X version, where, the history is not shown, nor is the password. This is also
a security issue.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to a password protected site by typing username/password on the url 
  address bar : http://username:[e-mail]
2.Visit again, The history bar will clearly display the userid/password. 
  Autocomplete will contain the userid/password in clear text
3.

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

Marking as dupe of bug 88771. Reporter: If you disagree, please reopen this bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88771 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

V dupe.