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Paul Benedict commented on STR-3189: ------------------------------------ Struts has a long-standing policy of not providing non-standard attributes on their tags. This attribute is part of HTML 5, I believe, so you may get it :-) Also, Struts 1.4 may contain a way for you to add dynamic attributes through a nested tag. > Enable the Autocomplete tag by default > -------------------------------------- > > Key: STR-3189 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/STR-3189 > Project: Struts 1 > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Tag Libraries > Affects Versions: 1.3.10 > Environment: All > Reporter: Jim Manico > > I'm a big fan of Struts 1.3.x. I currently use Struts 1.3.10, the latest > release of the 1.x Struts line. > I would like the ability to disable autocomplete in an HTML form. Sadly (from > a security perspective), most every browser enables autocomplete by default. > We need to explicitly attribute our form html with autocomplete="off" - in > both the form and form element tags of HTML 4.01+ pages. This is a very basic > security protection. Wanting to preventing the browser from caching credit > card number, PII and other critical user data is a no-brainier; appsec 101. > > Now, the recent 1.3.10 release made a great stride in this direction. Finally > for the first time the main Struts 1.3.x branch supports the autocomplete tag > (which defensive coders need - just to disable this feature via html!). But > it's still not enabled by default in Struts! I need to modify the struts tld > xml file in order to enable the autocomplete form and form element attribute; > which takes me off the main branch of Struts 1.3.x. > I implore you to consider enabling autocomplete by default, so we can turn it > off - without having to customize our version of struts 1.3.x! The best > security is "secured by default", and this request moves us in that > direction. > Jim Manico > OWASP, Intrinsic Security Working Group -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.