[Zope] IE5 form entry horror.

[Phil Harris]

Why not just turn off the auto-completion?


----- Original Message -----
From: Anthony Baxter <anthony@interlink.com.au>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 8:48 AM
Subject: [Zope] IE5 form entry horror.


> one of the customer service people here just pointed out something of
> a horror problem (a week before go-live, yay).
>
> IE5 appears to have a client-side cache of form entry values - so if
> someone returns to a page, they get a drop-box of previously entered
> values for this form field - this occurs even on a form accessed by https.
> To say that I'm somewhat unimpressed by this utter misfeature is something
> of an understatement. Imagine a kiosk setup, with a registration screen
> prompting for (amongst other things) a credit card number. Gee, let's
> use one someone entered earlier - pull down a little scrolly box.
>
> aiieieieie. One thought that comes to mind is to make the form field
> name be a name with a random bit on the end. (Another thought that came
> to mind was to do a drive-by on the local MS office.) Anyway, the reason
> for the zope-post is that I'm thinking of hacking the field name
converting
> so that you can do fieldname:type:end:anything and just finish looking
> for the type name after it hits the 'end' tag.
>
> This is a 3 line patch to ZPublisher/HTTPRequest.py - would it offend
> anyone if it was added?
>
> Anthony
>
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