Autocomplete

BBran wrote:

> IE did store my old eBay username and password
> up until I changed my username 2 weeks ago. Now it won't store the new one.
> So how does the fact it stored the old one and still has it, reconcile with
> your last paragraph. I am afraid I don't see how both are possible.

So, as Bob mentioned, did you elect to create the cookie by selecting their
"remember" option at the login screen? Did you purge all cookies before
doing the login with the remember option enabled?

Did you review your eBay account settings, Site Preferences, Other general
preferences to see if you disabled the "keep me signed in" option?

As to local caching of login credentials, how are you going to force eBay to
never change their code so they always use just one old method of saving
login credentials and never can they switch to a different mechanism.
Cookies, DOM storage, and user persistent data are some means a site can
elect to save info on your host. If you don't save their cookie or you wipe
cookies (via a web browser cleanup feature, a security program's cleanup or
privacy feature, or a cleanup utility, like CCleaner) then you aren't
keeping their cookie around to reuse the session encoded therein. If they
use DOM storage or persistent user data but you have those disabled in IE
then they are refused to save that site info on your local host.

Saving login credentials in a local cache for the web browser is a personal
config option not controlled by the web site. Any web page can request the
web browser not cache the login credentials, and any site that didn't make
that request can change to do so in the future.

Regarding whether a site requests their login credentials be locally cached
by a web browser or not, see below. I didn't see AUTOCOMPLETE used in their
web page but I didn't interrogate it in depth, either.

Any site whether for HTTP or HTTPS can use the "AUTOCOMPLETE=OFF"
attribute on an object in their HTML code to specify that the web
browser should not cache any data entered for that object, like the
<INPUT> tag for a field where you enter your login credentials. See
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/form...OCOMPLETE.html. This
has been available since IE5 (support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290641).

The HTML code in a web page via the HttpCacheability enumeration can
also specify where the response data gets cached.
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...heability.aspx)

"I know engineers. They l-o-v-e to change things."
(Bones in a Star Trek episode)