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For quite some time now, Chrome (think years) refuses to prompt for saving passwords whereas Firefox and Safari do prompt and save them, even for site types that it used to save passwords for in the past.
It has been annoying enough for too long now that I tried to do better than the Google searches I used back when I saw this happen first.
/**
* This allows errors to be skippped by typing a secret phrase into the page.
* @param {string} e The key that was just pressed.
*/
function handleKeypress(e) {
var BYPASS_SEQUENCE = 'badidea';
if (BYPASS_SEQUENCE.charCodeAt(keyPressState) == e.keyCode) {
keyPressState++;
if (keyPressState == BYPASS_SEQUENCE.length) {
sendCommand(SecurityInterstitialCommandId.CMD_PROCEED);
keyPressState = 0;
}
} else {
keyPressState = 0;
}
}
Yesterday and today, he is maintaining a Twitter thread on things that have broken.
Quite a few things have, including some versions of curl, on which a lot of infrastructure relies (the certificate for it got fixed later on 20120930), see:
Yes, I know the pluimers.com web server is rated B from a TLS perspective. Will be working on it, but I’m still recovering from rectum cancer treatments, and have an almost 1.5 year backlog to get through.
Let’s Encrypt has done loads of work over the past lustrum to prevent trouble like cross-signing, issuing the successor certificates, and more.
The problem is that people like you and me have refrained from keeping their clients and servers up-to-date, so some security issues will occur. Hopefully they are limited to non-functioning communication and not leaking of data.
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 