blog.layer2.org » firefox http://blog.layer2.org A technical blog Sun, 23 May 2010 00:15:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Remember Basic Authentication passwords in Firefox without Roboform http://blog.layer2.org/2008/02/09/remember-basic-authentication-passwords-in-firefox-without-roboform/ http://blog.layer2.org/2008/02/09/remember-basic-authentication-passwords-in-firefox-without-roboform/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:26:53 +0000 solipsistic http://blog.layer2.org/2008/02/09/remember-basic-authentication-passwords-in-firefox-without-roboform/ If you like to save your passwords, you probably know that its a pain to save Basic Authentication passwords in Firefox. Basic Authentication comes up in a new window saying “Enter username and password for …” and looks like this:

Prompt

There is no ’save this password’ button. If you access this site every day, and close Firefox between sessions, you’d have to type your username/password every time. No longer!

It is possible, though seemingly undocumented, to save the username/password inside the HTTP URL (this long has been done with FTP). For example:

http://user:password@layer2.org

bookmark

Just put this into a bookmark, and you have an easy way to access your password-protected site. Of course, if the password is actually sensitive, you might think twice about saving it in plain text as a bookmark!

The only annoying thing that happens using this method is that you’ll see this prompt the first time you try to log in (for any given Firefox session):

Log in

Just press OK. While not perfect, this is a heck of a lot easier to deal with than entering the password each and every time.

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