At 4:03 PM -0500 2006-09-05, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Given that Firefox was picking up the password, but was NOT offering > it back on later visits, I'll accept the argument that the basic > problem is really in Firefox. Apparently so do they, and they've > fixed it in an upcoming release, see my recent previous message.
That still leaves us with the problem of what was causing the same apparent behaviour with Opera, Safari, and the other browsers you mentioned. If I had to guess, I would say that it's probably a result of people using essentially the same terms to describe various problems with very different root causes, some of which may already have been addressed in more recent versions of our code, some of which may have already been discussed in the FAQ, some of which may not be our fault, and there is still the slight possibility that there may be something we could or should do to try to help make this issue more clear. I think the biggest problem is going to be trying to figure out which is which. There are now twenty-six different FAQ entries that use the term "password", and I've gone in and edited 4.45, 4.65, and 4.71 to all cross-link to each other because they all seem to be related to the same type of problem, albeit with various different root causes. This is not a good situation. We need to clear this up so that we don't have these kinds of problems again in the future. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 Founding Individual Sponsor of LOPSA. See <http://www.lopsa.org/>. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp