Basic HTTP Authenticaion login panes
Yes, people need auto fill for basic authentication. It is no help if you say it is used rarely. You cannot simply make it go away if you have a service you need to use but you cannot control its authotenticaion method. Many homegrown services use basic authentication and they are not less important.
Think about it: Why should this not be possible to hook into basic HTTP authentication requesters?
Early 1Password version supported it.
Even if the APIs changed for the browsers:
The competition supports it: https://lastpass.com/support.php?cmd=showfaq&id=6986
If you say it is not possible it only means you can't figure out how to do it. Sorry for the strong words, but it is ridiculous how long this topic doesn't get support. If you thing it is not a clean solution, make it optional and turn it off by default. Make the user aware of the risk and give her the choice!
It is a very basic and essential feature. Get a grip!
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Hi Justin,
Thanks for letting us know how important HTTP (basic) Authentication is for you. It hasn't gone off our radar, even though we've been focusing on the iOS 8 and Yosemite updates at the moment.
Safari still doesn't have the support to let us integrate basic auth, which is also true for LastPass. However, Chrome and Firefox have added it so those browsers would be where we may be able to offer basic auth.
I'm sorry I don't have any further information about when that could happen, but will certainly share your thoughts about this with our developers.
ref: OPM-250
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I also want to see this feature. It is currently one of two issues preventing me moving from Lastpass....
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Thanks for your interest in this feature, @tonhe. It is one the most popular requests and on our list to be added.
Right now it is possible to use 1Password mini to display site details and anchor the view so it stays on top of other windows. then copy/paste between 1Password mini and the site.
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The first disappointment with 1Password for me was lack of basic auth. I have many critical sites that I need to access from both my Mac and iPhone that use basic auth and 1Password has let me down. These sites are very simple embedded web servers in telephony gateways, the Nagios network monitoring system, router management pages, etc. I'm having to try and memorise passwords again and there's enough of them (hundreds) to make this impossible.
I'm absolutely sure there are tons of other business critical web systems that use basic auth that are causing similar problems for your other users.
I would like to use Safari preferably, especially on iOS.
Dan
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Hi @danw,
Here's the bad news. At the moment Safari is the one browser that has no way of interacting with the Basic Authentication windows. Firefox and Chrome have (recently I believe) offered a way where we could interact with a Basic Authentication request so for the moment any solution would be limited to those two browsers. Even if we can introduce such a feature on OS X, iOS will be a very different target altogether. Given how locked down iOS is, it would have to be something Safari fully supports via iOS extensions.
This isn't to say it might not happen but iOS will be far trickier than OS X I would say and it will be completely dependent on support from Apple to do so. For the moment your best option would be copy and paste for iOS Safari. It will allow you to use complex passwords so you don't feel at risk from a weak password while not resulting in choice expletives from having to attempt to enter a complex password if you're iOS typing is anything like mine.
We would love to do better here but what we were hoping was a unified and standard way of interacting with the browsers rather than saying yes to browser X but no to browsers Y & Z. I do understand why such a feature is desirable though.
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