On Jul/20/2011 18:03, Paolo Inaudi wrote:
I've made a login form in gwt with a textbox, a passwordtextbox and a button. everything is fine, but browser isn't asking me to store the password. Do I have to make the button a html submit input and create another page? or is there a way to tell the browser this is a login form? thanks a lot Paolo
I once worked on a project that did the same thing. They noticed the password remember stuff to late (they pretty much ignored it) and I had to fix this issue.
After some research the conclusion I reached was that it's best to keep the login process as "classical" as possible. By classic I mean, the HTML should not be generated by JS, but be written by the server, and the POST request should not be sent via Ajax, but rather using a normal form request. If you don't do this, the results will vary across browsers (this list is from memory):
1. no browser will remember user/pass combo unless it sees the HTML as it parses the page. So, no JS generated form elements.
2. As far as I remember, Firefox was the only browser that offered the remember password dialog for Ajax request (the heuristic were quite smart). The other browsers needed a classic request.
3. Chrome was very picky in that the remember password dialog was shown only on the first page after the redirect. If it happens that you do two redirects after successful login, then no dialog is shown. Oh, and the response of the page should be 2XX, but that's to be expected.
There were a lot of other issues that I don't remember right now. So my advice is to go for a classic HTML form/request. You can have the form with "display:none" and after the GWT code loads reposition it wherever you want on the page, or even read the text input values and populate another form element with them. But, as I said, submission should not be done via JS.
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