[Zope] IE5 form entry horror.

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> "Phil Harris" wrote
> Why not just turn off the auto-completion?

on every browser, everywhere in the world, that might access our site?

quite a lot of the traffic we expect to be from internet cafes and other
sites where the machines are shared, and poorly maintained...

some research turned up a new option for input type=text of "autocomplete".
testing here seems to show that it doesn't actually do anything.

> > 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?
> >