Re: CITIBANK [CANADA]: INTERNET EXPLORER BROWSERS

[Ben Laurie <ben () algroup co uk>]

http-equiv () excite com wrote:
> Sunday, December 29, 2002
>
> There is a small silly hitch with CITIBANK CANADA's secured sign in 
> to online banking:
>
> https://citibankcanada.ebilling.com/index.jhtml
>
> Specifically AUTOCOMPLETE="off" in the forms. It is not set.
>
> While much explanation is made about SSL connections and fancy 
> digital certificates, the simplest of web programming errors 
> Thwarte ! all that:
>
> CITIBANK CANADA's login allows for the Microsoft Internet Explorer 
> autocomplete feature to function. What that does is remember your 
> name and password. So on a public or even private machine, all one 
> needs to do is, double click the "name" form and the password will 
> automicrosoftly autocomplete [fill in].

This is, of course, a fault in IE, not Citibank.

Cheers,

Ben.

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