[whatwg] Solving the login/logout problem in HTML

[Julian Reschke]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> If the form is more complex than two fields (identity/secret), then I 
>> don't see how authentication is going to work except by displaying the 
>> form -- just extracting the field names certainly wouldn't be 
>> sufficient, even if they would be reasonable self-describing.
>>
>> So, in the current form, this proposal only helps in marking the 
>> server's response as *being* a login form, but not really in making it 
>> more usable for a non-HTML client...
> 
> Do you have a concrete example where the login form is complex in a manner 
> where the fields can't be identified and there is reason to believe that a 
> bot will want to authenticate but won't have been given enough information 
> to do so?

Well, it was you stating that the form could be arbitrarily complex.

If it's just two text fields, one of which of type password, then no, it 
wouldn't be hard.

BR, Julian