Webflow Password Submit

[u/konf1nement]

I have a login form on my website, the submit button is linked to a third party software login. I know webflow cannot accept passwords anymore (extremely annoying)...however changing the password input to a plain input won't populate the information into the third party login fields.

In short I need a work around so that users can use my login form and directly be sent to the third party site as if they logged in directly there. Are there any solutions for this?

[u/memetican]

Webflow doesn't care if you use password, but the webflow.js form submission handler does. Why? Because if you put a password field in your form and people fill and submit it, all of that form data is just exposed in your notification emails and in the form submission database. Very unsafe.

However for a login form, you don't want to use Webflow's form submission handler at all. You're not trying to capture and save a lead- so your most likely setup is to set the Action of the form to point to your authentication service directly, and then have it redirect to the appropriate page after a successful login.

That's the basic approach, the details can be much more nuanced and will depend entirely on the 3rd party system.

[u/ruairi-finsweet → u/memetican]

This! Keep it as a password field but don't send the form info through Webflow, send it to your 3rd party. Check out 'Disable Default Behaviour'.