139405 - There should be menu item which clear web page passwords

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 55181

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Kari HUrtta]

Offspring from bug 139181  

Tools -> Password manager -> Log out
is not supposed to clear passwords of webpage.


There should be method for clear passwords of webpage.

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

If I'm understanding this request correctly, that's not possible.  The loging in 
to each site is usually done by the site setting a cookie.  The browser has no 
idea what the contents of each cookie represent so it would not know which 
cookies to delete.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

We could clear all session cookies when the user selects "log out".

Comment 3

[Stephen P. Morse]

1. A saved login is not necessarily done in a session cookie.  Many sites have a 
permanent login (e.g., nytimes.com, ellisislandorg.net).

2. You'd be flushing a lot more than saved logins.

Comment 4

[Kari HUrtta]

I do not mean cookie.
I mean passwords used for WWW-Authenticate.

Comment 5

[Kari HUrtta]

Attachment: Example of dialog

WWW-Authenication -- this passwords should be apple to clear from memory
(otherwise than quitting of browser.)

Comment 6

[Stephen P. Morse]

OK, let me clarify.

- You are *NOT* talking about the cookies that the site has set which allow you 
not to have to login when you return to the site

- You are *NOT* talking about the password that the password manager has saved 
so it can prefill the login form when you return to the site.

- You *ARE* talking about the password that the http authentication code (in 
netwerking layer) has saved for the duration of the current browser session so 
that you will not be asked to re-authenticate when you return to the site during 
the current session.

So you should have cc'd some netwerking folks on this instead of cc'ing me.

Comment 7

[Darin Fisher]

iirc: i own a duplicate of this bug.. possibly in my futured list.

Comment 8

[Philip White]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55181 ***