Logging in - frequency and use of PW manager

[gordonf]

I have two issues with my Premium log-in on MacOS.

1. A session should be more persistent. It seems I am having to log in every few days despite a continuous browser session.

2. The log-in dialog seems opaque to password managers (e.g. Keeper, which is what I use). For better security you should encourage and enable the use of password managers and their inherent extremely secure passwords. Otherwise you are in effect encouraging the use of easy/poor passwords. Yes, I can open a separate session in Keeper and copy/paste passwords but this is extremely time-consuming and annoying. My banking sites certainly facilitate password manager use - so should you.

Love the site for my aviation weather needs.

[nesro]

Hi @gordonf
thank you for your feedback. I assume you use Windy.com on the desktop and not talking about the Windy.com mobile app.

Regarding the session persistency: the login session should be persistent as long as you have the _account_sid cookie. Can you please check that if you get logged out, whether this cookie is set or not? Can you please tell me which browser/os you use and whether you have some privacy extensions enabled? This could help me identify whether there is issue on our side we could fix/improve.

We’ll take a look at our login form to understand why Keeper behaves differently as it works with some other password managers.

[gordonf]

@nesro Thank you for the quick response.

I'm using Safari 26.0.1 (latest) on macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 (latest). Unfortunately I can only see the overall cooke indication.

What it might have to do with is that I have a (pinned) Windy session in a tab group tab and sometimes I open another session in another tab group.

Re the Keeper log-in, their scraper is usually pretty good at finding the entry fields so I am guessing it is a URL issue. The Keeper entry is looking at https://www.windy.com and I'm thinking it isn't scanning the pop-up log-in dialog.

[nesro]

@gordonf
To see the cookie value in Safari, you need to show develop menu:

Go to Safari ▸ Settings (or Preferences) → Advanced tab.
At the bottom, check ✅ “Show Develop menu in menu bar.”

Then click Develop -> Web Inspector -> Storage -> Cookies

You should be able to see the cookie when you are logged in. And the question is: if you get logged out, is the cookie still there or not. If it is, you can send us the cookie value to support@windy.com and I will take a closer look

[gordonf]

@nesro

Thanks. I always forget about Develop mode.

Logged in:

Logged out (none):

I have partially solved the Keeper issue, by defining the email address and password fields as custom fields and changing the root url to https://www.windy.com/login, although it does appear that the dialog incorporates dynamic custom components (likely via the Svelte framework). It won't auto-fill but once the dialog is up I can get a manually-triggered fill to work.

[nesro]

@gordonf

Great! Now please check this, when you will get logged out unintentionally.

[nesro]

Hi @gordonf

I've found and fixed an issue that could be causing this behaviour. Please let me know whether the problem persist.

Thank you again for pointing out this issue!