Influencing whether browsers prompt to save credentials

Question

For most web pages that have a username and password dialog, browsers will prompt the user if they want to save the credentials for that form:

However, for this login page, it doesn't. I can't find any good data on how IE makes the decision whether to present this dialog. How to get IE to show that prompt - assuming no user settings trump it?

Answer 1

My guess is that since the page is in HTTPS mode IE is not allowing autocomplete to execute because the page has indicated that HTTP caching should not be allowed.

Or the form is being submitted with Javascript.

See this article for more details. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2009/09/11/troubleshooting-stored-login-problems-in-ie.aspx