[Conkeror] A feature request for conkeror-xr

[John J Foerch]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo at member.fsf.org> writes:
> Hi!
>
> First of all, thanks for conkeror. Yesterday I've tried out conkeror-xr
> and it really rocks. It's much more stable than 0.42 on firefox
> 2.0.4. But there's one thing missing that's quite important to me.
>
> It would be great if conkeror-xr had a mechanism for automatically
> filling out forms (usernames, passwords, etc.). A simple yet flexible
> approach would be if a user could configure two programs for that task.
>
>   - One is queried with the URL and the form field names and returns the
>     filled out fields in some format, maybe one FIELD=value per line, or
>     nothing, if there're no informations available.
>
>   - If you fill out forms by hand (or change some form values which were
>     filled out automatically) another program is called with the
>     informations, so it can add those to the database.
>
> I think that would not be too hard to implement on conkeror's side and
> would give the user much more flexibility than a builtin solution,
> e.g. users can interface with existing password manager such as kwallet
> or revelation or write a custom solution.
>
> What do you think?
>
> BTW: A similar solution could be implemented for bookmarks.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> -- 
> A morning without coffee is like something without something else.

Hi Tassilo,

This is a good idea.  For the moment, there are deeper bugs and issues that
need to be fixed, but we'll get to these kinds of high level capabilities some
day.

--John