CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@futurebird decades ago, I made an IRC bot in PHP because it was the only language I had access to

there was also a period of time where I was running a RuneScape grand exchange website scraper that would update the RuneScape wiki and that was written in PHP too

@CheapPontoon @brainblasted in some cases you might need to actually type something into the password field in order to make it activate, but you can just add any letter at the end of your password and then delete it

@CheapPontoon @brainblasted if you can find the password input field in the developer console, you can manipulate it directly

1. Ctrl+Shift+i to open the developer console in most browsers. If the website tries to stop you, you can do it in the address bar so it doesn't have a chance to intercept.
2. Go to the first tab (the one that has a bunch of lines of text starting with <) and find the password input. There's a button in every browser's developer tools to pick an element using your mouse, which can help on pages with complicated markup.
3. If there's not a text box at the bottom of the developer tools, hit the ESC key once to bring it up.
4. With the <input type="password" element still selected, type $0.value in the text box and press enter to see what password is in the box.
5. You can also type $0.value = prompt() to get a text box controlled by your browser that you can paste the password into

@brainblasted the one silver lining of everything being a website nowadays is that you can potentially fix someone's intentionally broken password field