Block remember password

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Disable browser 'Save Password' functionality

How can you block the remember password prompt in an HTML form? An example is PayPal, which does not allow stored passwords.

I know autocomplete should be off and there is another trick to block the autocomplete when the browser doesn't support the attribute (make a hidden field named password). These two methods do not work in blocking the browser from prompting to store the password however.

It's hard to explain just how much I hate sites that do that — Michael Mrozek, Feb 04 '11 at 05:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 06 '12 at 19:37

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Send auth request using Ajax, then do JavaScript redirect on success.

// in JQuery it would be like this
$.post({
    url: '/login.php', 
    data: 'username=test&pass=test', 
    success: function(data) {
        window.href='success.php'
    }
});

OR

(I haven't tried this yet)

You can clear (or delete from DOM) username & password field before submit, and merge (may be hash as well) them into one hidden field and then do regular post.

On login page you need to reverse engineer that info again.

edited Apr 06 '12 at 19:37

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answered Feb 02 '11 at 14:48

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Any way you can think of without ajax? – Spechal Feb 02 '11 at 14:51
If you hash the username and password, the server has no way of knowing what the username and password were, other than brute-forcing it. – R. Martinho Fernandes Feb 02 '11 at 14:57

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 02 '11 at 14:48

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using javascript...

document.getElementById('usernameOrWhatever').setAttribute( 'autocomplete', 'off' )

answered Feb 02 '11 at 14:48

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