htaccess

sgabler

Hi,
somehow Vivaldi stopped saving htaccess credentials. Is there a way to activate it again, or store manually these cred. in Vivaldi?

thanks

OakdaleFTL

@sgabler Isn't htaccess a server-side file?!

IIRC, I used to store it via an FTP client...

Pathduck

@OakdaleFTL They probably mean HTTP Basic Auth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
Under Apache .htaccess is used to configure this.

Modern web browsers will refuse to save credentials from "insecure" non-HTTPS pages. So that might be the problem here.

Here's some test pages to test if saving HTTP Basic Auth works:
https://jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/ (Basic Authentication test)
https://authenticationtest.com (Basic HTTP/NTLM Authentication)

sgabler

@OakdaleFTL
Hi,
yes you are right, its setup on the server. We do not use insecure non https pages here. Interestingly, it was working for quite a time, but it stopped working. And yes it's also not working on chrome. (but its comfortable if you could somehow save these passwords) . Thats why I was asking if you can add manually passwords to the password manager from Vivaldi (all old saved access data are still working). Could be even a command line tool / script ...

thanks for your help

Pathduck

@sgabler Well, does saving the test user/passwords from the links above work? If so there's something wrong with your server setup, and again most likely because Chrome/Vivaldi++ thinks it's not a secure site.

What's the url of these sites? Do they start with HTTPS? Do they show a "secure" padlock icon?

Check if you also have any duplicate user/password entries, it might not save simply because you already have them saved.

Since Vivaldi = Chromium you can also go to:
chrome://password-manager/passwords
There is an option there to add passwords.

sgabler

@Pathduck
hi,
on both sides
Here's some test pages to test if saving HTTP Basic Auth works:
https://jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/ (Basic Authentication test)
https://authenticationtest.com (Basic HTTP/NTLM Authentication)
login was working, but no popup to save the password...

chrome://password-manager/passwords
There is an option there to add passwords.
could not find it

thanks
Stefan

Pathduck

@sgabler Do you have this setting enabled?

Settings > Privacy & Security > Passwords

Save Webpage Passwords

Check also:
chrome://password-manager/settings
That "Offer to save passwords" is enabled.

You didn't answer my questions:

What's the url of these sites?
Do they start with HTTPS?
Do they show a "secure" padlock icon?
Check if you also have any duplicate user/password entries

could not find it

There's an Add button:

sgabler

sorry my fault - 1 password deactivates the add function - disabling the 1-password extension fixed the problem
What's the url of these sites? - company internal but with certificate
Do they start with HTTPS? yes
Do they show a "secure" padlock icon? yes

sorry again for the noise and thanks for the help