On 6 Feb 2014, at 5:22 am, "Peter Shute" <[email protected]> wrote:

>> My experience with Firefox mostly on various Linux, Mac and Windows
>> platforms is that it does not always offer to save passwords,
>> particularly those from financial institution websites, but it does
>> always offer to save Mailman passwords.
> 
> Firefox offers to save the passwords to the same pages on a PC. I guess that 
> means it's totally an iOS problem.

It's interesting though that none of the other iOS apps I've tried offer to 
save it either - Atomic Lite, Chrome, Dolphin and Opera. Unless each of these 
uses the same faulty API to determine whether to offer to save the password or 
not, there must be something different about the mailman page that's fooling 
them. Maybe the lack of a username field?

Can anyone confirm whether they've had the same experience? It's happening for 
me on two different servers, so I'm assuming it's universal.

Getting back to the original problem of the cookie expiring, I've now closed 
all the Safari tabs except the mailman one, and it has stayed logged in for 
over an hour, despite me using other apps in the meantime. 

Prior to iOS7, my solution to the problem was to use chrome exclusively for 
this mailman page so I could have a single tab open in that app, while using 
many tabs in Safari. That stopped working with iOS7, but perhaps later minor 
iOS updates have fixed it. I'll go back to this method for a few days to check 
if it's working again.

Peter Shute
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