Find the flaws in the concept...

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Published on 2010-03-12T10:06:44Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 10:07 UTC
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A web based web browser. Sounds silly right? Here's a use case. All comments about what could go wrong, and if anyone has tried and failed at this, very much wanted

User goes to www.theBrowser.com and logs in with credentials specific to theBrowser.com.
User tells theBrowser what their username and password for various sites are
User goes to theBrowser.com/?uri=somesite.com
theBrowser sends off the http request with User's log in details, then sends the http response back to User. This lets theBrowser do weird and wonderful functions like change colours / style sheets / etc. to every site that gets passed through it.

From a technical stand point, storing username and password and passing them along is not a challenge for one user, but if there were a few, I'd have to use some kind of server based browser software to store a session per user logged in at theBrowser.com. How could I do that? Will I have to start from scratch?

Obviously privacy and security are issues. Would theBrowser.com be too great a risk, even if users are fully warned?

Cheers, Dave

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