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How does this handle oblivious users entering their credentials to forms? I have seen that happen in the wild and it was really hard to explain. I don't think
by mynewtb 10y ago
How does this handle oblivious users entering their credentials to forms? I have seen that happen in the wild and it was really hard to explain.
I don't think this is a great idea, it would make me worried about the Wayback Machine.
- throwanem 10y ago> it was really hard to explain No doubt; I'm not sure what you're describing here.
- mywittyname 10y agoI think his/her question is: what about POSTs from forms to 404 URLs. So, I User put my user/pass into a form field and hit submit. The browser makes a post to site.com/login with my information, but the server returns a 404. What happens in this case?
- eridius 10y agoI'm going to guess that it doesn't re-POST to the wayback machine, because that wouldn't make much sense and the wayback machine probably wouldn't even accept that.
- throwanem 10y agoThe same thing that happens in any other case: you're presented a banner that includes a link to a Wayback Machine search for the URL that 404ed. There's no magic here; it's just a link that produces a GET request when you click it. I feel like a lot of the concerns and objections raised in this comment thread originate in not having taken a minute to find out what this extension actually does.
- mynewtb 10y agoNope, I meant user getting 404 on a website they meant to log in to, getting redirected to Wayback copy and entering their credentials there.
- mynewtb 10y agoI meant archived websites that have login forms. I had a user complain that I banned her account. Only after sending me a screenshot we realised she was trying to log in to an archived version of my site in the wayback machine.