WebBased cookieLike application
I wonder if anyone out there is working on a web based application to maintain userids and passwords.
What I mean is that I'm pretty much annoyed with having to remember passwords and userids to the gabazillions of websites I'm registered on.
Cookies are fine till you are working on your own PC but how about some freedom of movement?
Just log into the webbased cookieLike (I even gave it a name) application, have it do the sweatwork of redirecting to your registered website of choice and automatically logging you in. No more remembering passwords.
This is my first post so I'm not really sure if this qualifies as a "Hot Technology" post but oh well :).
Off course some bigger companies (like Microsoft) are already trying to do this (like with a passport), but that doesn't realy work very good as not all sites support it.
Just some thinking out loud.
The easiest way would be to simply store the info from the cookie, but you can't read cookies from other sites, so it's no option.
Any generic option would require technical knowhow from the user about the site being accessed.
I've build both an interactive commandline tool and a spider that can access sites that need logging in (through both http authentication and form authentication), but they both require a level of knowhow about the site.
A participant system would allow to do this very easily, but then you would run into the same problems as with a passport, if a site doesn't join it isn't supported.
You could consider to restrict yourself to form based login and then build a parser to find out about the fields being accessed. The problem is that you will also need to run javascript, cause a lot of times values that are posted are 'calculated' in javascript. This still is the most viable solution so far. I'll think about it some more, I guess.
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