How Mozilla recognizes password forms

[Bob Bell]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 08:44:31AM -0500, Michael ODonnell <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:
> I've rigged Mozilla to remember my passwords
> for various accounts (which I believe to be
> safe because it's supposedly encrypted under
> protection of a Master password - anybody heard
> otherwise?)  and it somehow manages to detect
> most instances where I'm supplying a password
> and offers to remember it for me and then enter
> it automatically from then on.  Sometimes it
> doesn't do this, though, so I'm wondering if
> anybody knows what it is about a given WWW page
> that triggers Mozilla's password-remembering
> behavior, or if there's some way to force it...

I've seen this on some pages, where it doesn't event prompt to remember
passes.  I've speculated, but not verified, that it is because said
pages ask not to be cached.  Perhaps you may want to look into that.

-- 
Bob Bell