[Mailman-Users] Why does iOS's Safari log out the moderator web page?

[Peter Shute]

In case anyone's interested, I've "solved" this problem of Safari, etc, letting the cookie expire and logging out of the moderator page on the iPad by installing LastPass Tab. This is a password manager and, because of iOS restrictions that prevent an app from entering a password for another app like Safari, it contains its own browser.

I have saved a bookmark for my moderator page and edited it to save the password. Unfortunately the app needs to be logged in to access that password, which is stored in the cloud, and regularly logs itself out (and closes the web page), but it does allow me to save its own password, so a couple of taps get me back into the page.

Peter Shute

Sent from my iPad

On 6 Feb 2014, at 1:00 pm, "Peter Shute" <pshute at nuw.org.au> wrote:

>> On 6 Feb 2014, at 11:03 am, "Mark Sapiro" <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I use Firefox on an Android phone and it quite happily saves Mailman's
>> admin login passwords w/o a user field.
> 
> No such thing for iOS, unfortunately, although I'm betting all the other browsers available for Android will save a mailman password too.
> 
> 
> I just tried the Mercury browser, on the grounds that its logo looks a bit like the Firefox logo, and it too doesn't ask to save it. It must be dependent on an iOS API.
> 
> Peter Shute
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