Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Lolu chungechunge lwabekwa kunqolobane. Uyacelwa ubuze umbuzo omusha uma udinga usizo.

Bookmark a page with username/password in the URL

  • 4 uphendule
  • 3 zinale nkinga
  • 1 view
  • Igcine ukuphendulwa ngu Ralph Daub

cmeerw
cmeerw
more options

I can add username/password for HTTP authentication directly to the URL (e.g. http://user:passwd@example.com/ ) and this works fine with the browser on Firefox OS 1.3 (on a ZTE Open C). However, when bookmarking that page, the bookmark doesn't include the username/password any more and so I'll have to manually enter the username/password when visiting that site again (after clearing private data) - and unfortunately there is no password manager for Firefox OS yet...

Another way to add a bookmark appears to be via a small Javascript using the "save-bookmark", however that appears to only give me the option to add the bookmark to the Home Screen (and I am not sure if it will keep the username/password information in the bookmarked URL).

Is there any other way to add a bookmark to the browser and keep the username/password information in the URL?

I can add username/password for HTTP authentication directly to the URL (e.g. http://user:passwd@example.com/ ) and this works fine with the browser on Firefox OS 1.3 (on a ZTE Open C). However, when bookmarking that page, the bookmark doesn't include the username/password any more and so I'll have to manually enter the username/password when visiting that site again (after clearing private data) - and unfortunately there is no password manager for Firefox OS yet... Another way to add a bookmark appears to be via a small Javascript using the "save-bookmark", however that appears to only give me the option to add the bookmark to the Home Screen (and I am not sure if it will keep the username/password information in the bookmarked URL). Is there any other way to add a bookmark to the browser and keep the username/password information in the URL?

All Replies (4)

guigs
guigs
more options

Hi cmeerw, I was able to bookmark this with Facebook and google, do you have an example site I can also test :-)

I will let it sit for a while as well to see if the login session expires after a while then access the bookmark again.

cmeerw
cmeerw Umnikazi wombuzo
more options

That's different - these sites store the session in cookies. Clear your cookies in the browser and your session will be gone.

I don't have an example I can share at the moment, but can probably set one up in the next day or so...

cmeerw
cmeerw Umnikazi wombuzo
more options

Here is an example:

http://user1:user1@test.webdav.org/auth-basic/

Works fine if you enter that URL in the URL bar. But when bookmarking it, it only gets bookmarked as http://test.webdav.org/auth-basic/ and so you will have to enter username and password again (after clearing cookies and session data) when opening from bookmarks.

Ralph Daub
Ralph Daub
  • Locale Leader
more options

Hi cmeerw,

Thank you for providing this link for testing. How are you saving your bookmark on your Firefox OS device?

I noticed that when I accessed the link on my Firefox OS, the link redirected correctly, and then automatically changed to http://test.webdav.org/auth-basic/. So, if I were to bookmark it then, it would bookmark the "current" address correctly, but it no longer has the user:password information in it.

I don't know that there is a way to manually edit the URL of a bookmark in Firefox OS, to assure that the full URL is bookmarked, but I imagine that this may solve the problem you are seeing.

- Ralph