Nativefier: Apps sometimes don’t remember logins between sessions

[danielyli]

Description

For some sites, apps created using Nativefier don’t save authorization creds between sessions (app close-and-reopen cycles) despite explicitly checking the “Remember Me” box on those sites. Vanilla Chrome has no problems remembering logins for these sites.

Steps to reproduce issue

This problem seems site-dependent. For instance, credentials are saved for GitHub but not Expensify or Greenhouse. Since reproduction requires valid credentials to specific sites, reproduction might be difficult unless you can find such a site.

On such a site, do the following:

1. Log in using your credentials, remembering to check any Remember Me checkbox.
2. Close the Nativefier app.
3. Reopen the app.

You should be presented with a login screen again.

Details

• Are you nativefying a public website?
  Public website with login

• Feature request? Have you looked at nativefier --help to see if an existing option could fit your needs?
  nativefier --help doesn’t mention this.

• Full nativefier command used to build your app: <command here>
nativefier --name Greenhouse --fast-quit --single-instance https://app.greenhouse.io/

nativefier --name Expensify --icon icns/expensify.icns --fast-quit --single-instance https://www.expensify.com/reports

• Version of Nativefier (run nativefier --version): v7.6.2
• Version of node.js (run node --version): v10.1.0
• OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4
• Error message / stack trace (if any): None

[ronjouch]

@danielyli thanks for the feedback. Could your problem be a duplicate of https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier/issues/164 ?

[danielyli]

It’s unknown if it is. In the cases I could find, I used an email+password combination for login, not credentials from Facebook, Google, etc. Unless these websites are using OAuth for email+password, they might not be related.

[awerlang]

Here is/was the same. No OAuth used. Credentials stored as cookies in the top-level domain.

I had to login every time I opened the app. Then using a tip from the OAuth thread, refreshing the page after the login, now it remembers the session next time. The trouble is that if I log out, it keeps me logged in next time.

Important to notice: this (forget session) happens when I specify a --name on the command line, even with no spaces.

TL;DR App generated with --name doesn't remember logins persisted in a parent domain. App generated with or without --name doesn't remembers log outs.

[bakeiro]

Same here

[fuzzy76]

@ronjouch do you still need more info on this?