form fields and no-cache

[shank]

Is it possible to stop 1 single form field from being cached?
I would like all the name and address fields to be cached by Internet
Explorer, but not the credit card field.
How is that done?
thanks

[Brian]

shank wrote:

Is it possible to stop 1 single form field from being cached?
Cached? Do you mean you don't want the browser to save certain form
data? If so, then you can't force what you want on the client end.
IE/Win might be conned into not saving it, but other browsers will not.
I would like all the name and address fields to be cached by Internet
Explorer, but not the credit card field.

It sounds like you need to take some security 101 courses, preferably
before accepting credit cards on the net. Do you have ssl? A certificate?

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[Philip Ronan]

On 22/7/04 11:10 pm, shank wrote:

Is it possible to stop 1 single form field from being cached?
I would like all the name and address fields to be cached by Internet
Explorer, but not the credit card field.
How is that done?
thanks

Try this:
<INPUT name="creditcar d" type="text" autocomplete="o ff">

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[shank]

That's it!
thanks!

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On 22/7/04 11:10 pm, shank wrote:

Is it possible to stop 1 single form field from being cached?
I would like all the name and address fields to be cached by Internet
Explorer, but not the credit card field.
How is that done?
thanks

Try this:
<INPUT name="creditcar d" type="text" autocomplete="o ff">

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[Harlan Messinger]

"shank" <sh***@tampabay .rr.com> wrote:

That's it!
thanks!

"That's it" in browsers where that works. What about browsers where
that doesn't work?

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On 22/7/04 11:10 pm, shank wrote:

> Is it possible to stop 1 single form field from being cached?
> I would like all the name and address fields to be cached by Internet
> Explorer, but not the credit card field.
> How is that done?
> thanks
>
>

Try this:
<INPUT name="creditcar d" type="text" autocomplete="o ff">

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[Philip Ronan]

On 24/7/04 2:47 pm, Harlan Messinger wrote:

"That's it" in browsers where that works. What about browsers where
that doesn't work?

<INPUT .. autocomplete="o ff"> is an IE attribute that switches off an IE
feature. Other browsers will ignore it.

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[Brian]

Philip Ronan wrote:

<INPUT .. autocomplete="o ff"> is an IE attribute that switches off
an IE feature. Other browsers will ignore it.

I should be so lucky. Mozilla also switches off form fill-in support
on such sites. There used to be a preference to override it, but it
seems to have diappeared in Firefox.

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[Philip Ronan]

On 24/7/04 6:25 pm, Brian wrote:

Philip Ronan wrote:

<INPUT .. autocomplete="o ff"> is an IE attribute that switches off
an IE feature. Other browsers will ignore it.

I should be so lucky. Mozilla also switches off form fill-in support
on such sites. There used to be a preference to override it, but it
seems to have diappeared in Firefox.

Well at least the page is behaving as the author intended :-)

In fact I think it's a good idea adding this attribute to an input field for
a credit card number. Surely nobody would be insane enough to want this
entered automatically. And you wouldn't want your phone number to appear in
there after you pressed the first digit, would you? So what's the problem?

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[Brian]

Philip Ronan wrote:

Brian wrote:

Philip Ronan wrote:

<INPUT .. autocomplete="o ff"> is an IE attribute that switches
off an IE feature. Other browsers will ignore it.
I should be so lucky. Mozilla also switches off form fill-in
support on such sites. There used to be a preference to override
it, but it seems to have diappeared in Firefox.

Well at least the page is behaving as the author intended :-)

Heh, yeah.
In fact I think it's a good idea adding this attribute to an input
field for a credit card number. Surely nobody would be insane
enough to want this entered automatically.
Why not? I want it entered in automatically on my home computer, since
someone would have to break into my house and steal my computer to
get the number. And if they did that, they're just as likely to have
the card itself.
And you wouldn't want your phone number to appear in there after
you pressed the first digit, would you?

Well, yes I would. I want my default browser to ask me when I enter
form data if it should save it and reenter it automatically next time.
Mind you, the browser should not do this without asking, since that
would be a privacy violation, in particular in public situations
(kiosk browser, library, etc.). A well run internet cafe or library
would configure the browser to disable saving form data. But that
should be done on the client side.

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[Tim]

Philip Ronan wrote:

In fact I think it's a good idea adding this attribute to an input
field for a credit card number. Surely nobody would be insane
enough to want this entered automatically.

Brian <us*****@juliet remblay.com.inv alid> posted:
Why not? I want it entered in automatically on my home computer, since
someone would have to break into my house and steal my computer to
get the number. And if they did that, they're just as likely to have
the card itself.

What does IE do if someone hid that form gadget, yet IE has cached answers
for it? Does it autofill it with your credit card again, and you might you
unknowingly submit it to someone?

That's not something I'd care to experiment with, nor would I be very
surprised at IE doing something very stupid.

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