182211 - When a page contains two loginforms with the same fields passwordmanager fills both fields and next time you login it stores two copies of the password

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect)

Description

[David Mårtensson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 MultiZilla/v1.1.18
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 MultiZilla/v1.1.18

On idg.se when I open a news and then add a comment to the news I get two copies
of my login profile.

This is because idg has two login forms, on on top of the page and one in the
comment form. These share the same fieldnames.

After I have logged on one time and saved the password mozilla fills both forms
on next visit to page. When I then login it stores both copies not only the one
I login with and the next time I access the page it asks me to choose profile
från two identical ones.

I have so far been unable to create a testcase that works and I can not see how
mozilla detects differences beetwen forms, 
is there any files I can provide that you could check?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create your own account on www.idg.se
2. Log in in the form on top of the page
3. Close browser compleatly
4. Reenter without loggin in
5. Open a news and comment on it ( maybe you have to open comments first, have
not tested this fully yet)

Actual Results:  
Two profiles with the same username & password are created and next time I open
page I have to choose which I want to use.

Expected Results:  
Only create one profile.

This could be because their HTML i flawed in some way, ex. missing closing tags
on some tables or divs.

The forms are correctly closed.

I will continue to try to create a simplified testcase for this but the page is
HUGE with a lot of javascript.

This is not a major problem as the problem only resurfaces when I comment on
news but it indicates som kind of problem separating profiles, should it even be
possible to create two identical profiles with same server, usernae and password

Comment 1

[David Mårtensson]

Attachment: Password forms

Found the problem!!

If the form contains spaces after username or password in one of the forms two
profiles are created, but you cannot se the difference.

Adding a simple testcase, the url in the first form contains a querystring,
without this the problem dissapears

Comment 2

[David Mårtensson]

Attachment: Second file in testcase

This is the secon page in the testcase, use both for easy testing

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Reassigning unconfirmed form and password manager bugs to the new owner

Comment 4

[David Mårtensson]

This could be related or dup of bug 161369 which I found.

That bug handles the login in it self. 

This concerns the fact that you can get two seamingly identical formprofiles.

Solving one maybe solves both depending on the solution.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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