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Offline John Liebson

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Another Problem Site
« on: February 28, 2007, 05:25:32 PM »
I'm having problems with https://myportal.medicare.gov . I did enter a URL pattern for the site, but I cannot get PWM to recognize either of the two log-on boxes.

The password must start and end with a letter, so it seemed easiest to create my own password, enter it into the relevant log-on box and then save it as an Advanced Auto-Populate entry. However, I cannot figure out why PWM will not create the entry when I enter the password and click on the box.

(In regards to the password, is there a way to force PWM to create such a password, one that starts and ends with a letter?)

In addition, I cannot get PWM to recognize the log-on box for my Medicare account number.

Perhaps PWM is too young for Medicare? Perhaps someone can resuscitate PWM to work on this site?

Offline Miquel 'Fire' Burns

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Another Problem Site
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2007, 05:44:41 PM »
I'm bitten by this bug as well, and I know the cause of it.

PasswordMaker can only handle frames one level deep. That site appears to be 5 (!!!) levels deep, though the site I have issues with is only 3 I think, maybe just 2.

I'm counting every frameset tag as a level, so any site with frames has at least one level.
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Offline John Liebson

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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2007, 06:40:10 PM »
Quote from: miquelfire
I'm bitten by this bug as well, and I know the cause of it.

PasswordMaker can only handle frames one level deep. That site appears to be 5 (!!!) levels deep, though the site I have issues with is only 3 I think, maybe just 2.

I'm counting every frameset tag as a level, so any site with frames has at least one level.
I could, but shall refrain from, asking if your reply is on the level....

Thanks for the quick reply; the problem certainly had me puzzled and frustrated. That a government site is  only five levels deep is hardly surprising. For example, I was sent a temporary password, which I used to log in and change to my own password. At that point, I got some sort of error message, telling me to go back, which I did; at that point, I was correctly logged in despite the error message.

(I have not tried logging on again with my own password; wonder if it will now work.)

There was one message waiting for me, a standard "welcome to this site" type of message. I skimmed it, then tried to delete it; that attempt engendered an error message that another user had modified the message and, therefore, I could not delete it.

Offline Eric H. Jung

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Another Problem Site
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2007, 11:54:59 PM »
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(In regards to the password, is there a way to force PWM to create such a password, one that starts and ends with a letter?)
Yes, use the prefix and suffix fields to hard-code letters for the start and end, or change the character set until you get a password meeting the criteria you want.

Offline John Liebson

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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2007, 01:20:20 AM »
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Yes, use the prefix and suffix fields to hard-code letters for the start and end, or change the character set until you get a password meeting the criteria you want.
Thanks for the follow up; it won't work on the site in question, of course, but I shall attempt to remember this for other sites that require such passwords.

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Re: Another Problem Site
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2008, 04:10:44 PM »
FF's built in password manager didn't recognise the 

User Id:
Password:
      fields here:

https://commerce.health.state.ny.us/hpn/

Would PWM be able to manage this site? I'm curious what is going wrong here:

With the following code:
              <tr>

                     <td colspan="5">
                        <table width="720" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
                           <tr>
                              <td width="359"><div align="center"><img src="/images/logo/large_logo.gif" alt="hcs logo" width="309" height="223" hspace="25" vspace="25" /></div></td>
                           <form name="WaarpLogin" method="post" autocomplete="off" action="/pages/waarp_login.cgi" target="_top" id="WaarpLogin">
                              <td width="361">
                              <table width="248" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                                 <tr>
                                   <td width="70" height="33" class="form_text"><div align="right">User Id:</div></td>

                           <td width="178" height="33"><div align="left"><span class="left_box_text"><input name="userid" type= "text" class= "form_text" size="35" maxlength="8" /></span></div></td>
                        </tr>
                                <tr>
                                   <td height="33" class="form_text"><div align="right">Password:</div></td>
                           <td height="33"><div align="left"><span class="left_box_text"><input name="password" class="form_text" size="35" maxlength="32" type="password" /></span></div></td>
                                </tr>
                                <tr>
                                   <td class="form_text">&nbsp;</td>

                                    <td><div align="right"><span class="left_box_text"><input name="Action" value= "none" type= "hidden" /> <input value="Sign In" class= "button" type="submit" /></span></div></td>
                                </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td class="form_text">&nbsp;</td>
                                <td class="small_note_text">&nbsp;</td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td class="form_text">&nbsp;</td>

<!--                                <td class="small_note_text"><div align="right">Forgot Your Password?  <a href= "/pages/cpwd/passutil/passutil.cgi">Click Here.</a></div></td>
-->
                              </tr>

Thanks for your work on this!
Somehow medicine-related sites manage to find new and ingenious ways to do it wrong.....

Offline Miquel 'Fire' Burns

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Re: Another Problem Site
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2008, 04:31:25 PM »
Yes, it does (though my username is too big for the user id field there...)
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Re: Another Problem Site
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2008, 04:31:25 PM »