Monday, July 18, 2005

Disable AutoComplete for Login Forms

The AutoComplete feature of the Internet Explorer is convenient, but it is insecure if you use a shared computer to login, or some people comes to your computer to login as you. They even don't need the user name and the password. The browser will autocomplete for them.

There is a way to turn off AutoComplete from the IE browser (Tools->Inter Options->Content->Auto Complete), but in many cases you either forgot to turn off or your are using shared computers which has the settings you can't change. Even you turn off to make it safe, you still want to turn it on for some Web applications.

Autocomplete=off is an attribute you can add in the login form tag to disable the autocomplete for that form, regardless of the IE settings. I suggest we add that for all the Web Login applications. After the implementation, please test it comprehensively too.

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