I would like some help understanding how the Event: 'login' feature in Electron Framework works. Is it the low level implementation of the Password Autofill/Remember Password feature mon in browsers? I would like to use this to autofill a password in a webpage's login flow e.g.

const electron = require('electron')
const {app,BrowserWindow} = electron

app.on('ready', ()=>{
    let win = new BrowserWindow({
        width:800,
        height:600
    })
//This is where I'm confused
app.on('login', (event, webContents, request, authInfo, callback) => {
  event.preventDefault();
  callback('my_username', 'my_password');
});
//How to implement autofill to ?



    win.loadURL('')

});

Here is the link to the specification in their docs

I would like some help understanding how the Event: 'login' feature in Electron Framework works. Is it the low level implementation of the Password Autofill/Remember Password feature mon in browsers? I would like to use this to autofill a password in a webpage's login flow e.g.

const electron = require('electron')
const {app,BrowserWindow} = electron

app.on('ready', ()=>{
    let win = new BrowserWindow({
        width:800,
        height:600
    })
//This is where I'm confused
app.on('login', (event, webContents, request, authInfo, callback) => {
  event.preventDefault();
  callback('my_username', 'my_password');
});
//How to implement autofill to https://accounts.google.?



    win.loadURL('https://accounts.google.')

});

Here is the link to the specification in their docs

• javascript
• node.js
• chromium
• electron

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It's not used for autofilling, it's used for basic auth. When you get those annoying browser prompts for user and password.

How to display HTTP 401 basic authentication dialog

It can also be used to support Proxies on a Corporate network. e.g. Basic, NTLM, etc. This'd be in response to a 407.

Update August 2023

Adding a basic example. The core code here needs to be application specific.

// Runs when electron requires credentials in response to a 401 or 407
app.on('login', async (event, webContents, request, authInfo, callback) => {
  // Call prevent default immediately as a delay, such as prompting on the UI for credentials, will
  // cause the default action to occur.
  event.preventDefault()

  // If the proxy credentials are cached use them otherwise prompt on the UI
  const [username, password] = <custom code to retrieve credentials, I display a prompt for the user to enter the credentials>

  callback(username, password)
})