From 93852f7c3055c3178bb0c78b979fb4cd527cd33d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hexuria <295542929+hexuria@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:11:19 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] the box says what kind of box has focus on the page in front,
 so a password is typed only into a password box

---
 crates/box-host/src/active_tab.rs | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 docker/active-tab/background.js   | 24 ++++++++++---
 docker/active-tab/focus.js        | 34 ++++++++++++++++++
 docker/active-tab/manifest.json   | 22 ++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docker/active-tab/focus.js

diff --git a/crates/box-host/src/active_tab.rs b/crates/box-host/src/active_tab.rs
index ae9d5af..6abd452 100644
--- a/crates/box-host/src/active_tab.rs
+++ b/crates/box-host/src/active_tab.rs
@@ -33,6 +33,15 @@ pub struct ActiveTab {
     /// When the extension last reported, in ms since the epoch.
     #[serde(rename = "atMs", skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
     pub at_ms: Option<u64>,
+    /// What kind of box has focus on that page, as its page said (`docker/active-tab/focus.js`):
+    /// `password`, `text`, `other` or `none`; `None` while the page has not said. The server
+    /// types a password only into a `password` box.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub focus: Option<String>,
+    /// How many reports this browser has made: a reader that clicked a field waits for it to
+    /// move before it trusts `focus`, so an older report is not taken for the click's.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub seq: Option<u64>,
 }
 
 /// One native-messaging message: a 4-byte length in native byte order, then that much JSON.
@@ -58,16 +67,20 @@ pub fn read_message(input: &mut impl Read) -> io::Result<Option<serde_json::Valu
         .map_err(|error| io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::InvalidData, error))
 }
 
-/// Keep `url` as the page in front: a new file renamed over the old, so a reader never sees
-/// half of one.
-pub fn record(path: &Path, url: &str) -> io::Result<()> {
+/// Keep `url` as the page in front, with the kind of box focused on it and the report's number:
+/// a new file renamed over the old, so a reader never sees half of one.
+pub fn record(path: &Path, url: &str, focus: Option<&str>, seq: u64) -> io::Result<()> {
     let at_ms = SystemTime::now()
         .duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH)
         .map(|d| d.as_millis() as u64)
         .unwrap_or(0);
+    // Only the words the extension uses: anything else is not the extension speaking.
+    let focus = focus.filter(|f| matches!(*f, "password" | "text" | "other" | "none"));
     let tab = ActiveTab {
         url: Some(url.to_string()),
         at_ms: Some(at_ms),
+        focus: focus.map(str::to_string),
+        seq: Some(seq),
     };
     let tmp = path.with_extension("json.tmp");
     let mut file = std::fs::File::create(&tmp)?;
@@ -84,6 +97,8 @@ pub fn read(path: &Path) -> ActiveTab {
         .unwrap_or(ActiveTab {
             url: None,
             at_ms: None,
+            focus: None,
+            seq: None,
         })
 }
 
@@ -91,9 +106,12 @@ pub fn read(path: &Path) -> ActiveTab {
 /// so a browser that is gone is never taken for one showing its last page.
 pub fn serve(input: &mut impl Read, path: &Path) -> io::Result<()> {
     let result = (|| {
+        let mut seq = 0;
         while let Some(message) = read_message(input)? {
             if let Some(url) = message.get("url").and_then(serde_json::Value::as_str) {
-                record(path, url)?;
+                seq += 1;
+                let focus = message.get("focus").and_then(serde_json::Value::as_str);
+                record(path, url, focus, seq)?;
             }
         }
         Ok(())
@@ -123,7 +141,7 @@ mod tests {
         // Read as it arrives: after both reports, the second is in front.
         let mut reader = &input[..];
         while let Some(message) = read_message(&mut reader).unwrap() {
-            record(&path, message["url"].as_str().unwrap()).unwrap();
+            record(&path, message["url"].as_str().unwrap(), None, 1).unwrap();
         }
         assert_eq!(
             read(&path).url.as_deref(),
@@ -135,6 +153,38 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(read(&path).url, None);
     }
 
+    /// The focused box's kind comes through with each report, numbered, and only in the
+    /// extension's own words.
+    #[test]
+    fn each_report_says_what_kind_of_box_has_focus() {
+        let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("active-tab-focus-{}", std::process::id()));
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();
+        let path = dir.join("tab.json");
+        let fb = "https://www.facebook.com/login";
+        let mut input = framed(&format!(r#"{{"url":"{fb}","focus":"text"}}"#));
+        input.extend(framed(&format!(r#"{{"url":"{fb}","focus":"password"}}"#)));
+        input.extend(framed(&format!(r#"{{"url":"{fb}","focus":"<script>"}}"#)));
+
+        let mut reader = &input[..];
+        let mut seq = 0;
+        let mut seen = Vec::new();
+        while let Some(message) = read_message(&mut reader).unwrap() {
+            seq += 1;
+            let focus = message["focus"].as_str();
+            record(&path, message["url"].as_str().unwrap(), focus, seq).unwrap();
+            let now = read(&path);
+            seen.push((now.focus, now.seq));
+        }
+        assert_eq!(
+            seen,
+            [
+                (Some("text".to_string()), Some(1)),
+                (Some("password".to_string()), Some(2)),
+                (None, Some(3)),
+            ]
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn a_message_longer_than_any_url_is_refused() {
         let input = (MAX_MESSAGE + 1).to_ne_bytes();
diff --git a/docker/active-tab/background.js b/docker/active-tab/background.js
index e98f5c9..a015ba7 100644
--- a/docker/active-tab/background.js
+++ b/docker/active-tab/background.js
@@ -3,10 +3,14 @@
 // login, and types nothing when the page in front is not the login's own site: on a computer
 // several Bots share, another Bot may have brought its own page forward.
 //
-// Only the `tabs` permission: the URL and nothing of the page, its cookies or its storage.
-// An open native port also keeps this service worker alive.
+// With it, what kind of box has focus on that page (`focus.js`: password, text, other or none),
+// so a password is typed only into a password box. Only the `tabs` permission and that kind:
+// nothing of the page, its cookies or its storage. An open native port also keeps this service
+// worker alive.
 const HOST = "dev.opengrok.active_tab";
 let port = null;
+// Each tab's focused box, as its page last said; a tab that has not said is unknown.
+const focusByTab = new Map();
 
 function connect() {
   port = chrome.runtime.connectNative(HOST);
@@ -21,7 +25,8 @@ async function report() {
   if (!port) return;
   const [tab] = await chrome.tabs.query({ active: true, lastFocusedWindow: true });
   try {
-    port.postMessage({ url: tab ? tab.url || tab.pendingUrl || "" : "" });
+    const focus = tab && focusByTab.has(tab.id) ? focusByTab.get(tab.id) : null;
+    port.postMessage({ url: tab ? tab.url || tab.pendingUrl || "" : "", focus });
   } catch (_) {
     // The port closed between the check and the send; onDisconnect reconnects.
   }
@@ -29,8 +34,19 @@ async function report() {
 
 chrome.tabs.onActivated.addListener(report);
 chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener((_id, change, tab) => {
+  // A new page has said nothing of its focus yet.
+  if (change.url) focusByTab.delete(_id);
   if (tab.active && (change.url || change.status)) report();
 });
-chrome.tabs.onRemoved.addListener(report);
+chrome.tabs.onRemoved.addListener((id) => {
+  focusByTab.delete(id);
+  report();
+});
+chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((message, sender) => {
+  // Only a page's own top frame speaks for its focus.
+  if (!sender.tab || sender.frameId !== 0 || typeof message.focus !== "string") return;
+  focusByTab.set(sender.tab.id, message.focus);
+  if (sender.tab.active) report();
+});
 chrome.windows.onFocusChanged.addListener(report);
 connect();
diff --git a/docker/active-tab/focus.js b/docker/active-tab/focus.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a26e337
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/active-tab/focus.js
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+// Tells the extension what kind of box has focus on this page: a password box, another place
+// to type text, or none. The server reads it (with the page in front) before it types each
+// value of a login, and types a password only into a password box: on 10 Oct 2026 a fill
+// whose click missed typed a password into Facebook's email box and pressed Log in.
+//
+// Only the kind is sent, never what is in the box or anything else of the page.
+function kind() {
+  const el = document.activeElement;
+  if (!el || el === document.body || el === document.documentElement) return "none";
+  if (el.tagName === "INPUT") {
+    const type = (el.getAttribute("type") || "text").toLowerCase();
+    if (type === "password") return "password";
+    const text = ["text", "email", "tel", "search", "url", "number"];
+    return text.includes(type) ? "text" : "other";
+  }
+  if (el.tagName === "TEXTAREA" || el.isContentEditable) return "text";
+  return "other";
+}
+
+function tell() {
+  try {
+    chrome.runtime.sendMessage({ focus: kind() });
+  } catch (_) {
+    // The extension was reloaded under this page; the next page load reconnects.
+  }
+}
+
+// After focus moves, not during: on focusout the new element is not focused yet.
+const later = () => setTimeout(tell, 0);
+document.addEventListener("focusin", later, true);
+document.addEventListener("focusout", later, true);
+// A type changed in place (a "show password" toggle) is a different kind of box.
+document.addEventListener("input", later, true);
+tell();
diff --git a/docker/active-tab/manifest.json b/docker/active-tab/manifest.json
index 312a251..bd4e17e 100644
--- a/docker/active-tab/manifest.json
+++ b/docker/active-tab/manifest.json
@@ -2,8 +2,24 @@
   "manifest_version": 3,
   "name": "Box active tab",
   "version": "1.0",
-  "description": "Tells the box which page is in front, so a saved login is typed only into its own site.",
+  "description": "Tells the box which page is in front and what kind of box has focus there, so a saved login is typed only into its own site and a password only into a password box.",
   "key": "MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAtOWylc0UvRLh2wU3OEVDxJFzXgl5wc4dKOzeLDYYgf86/+7+2IUD4bo3VgPcA29xeg+MgEFYadEGvxDgdjwI/k1MDN3glA+ERP6ou/xOLnUPZUg3No0B1ElZ7HfmHl/Ia5BM96D9tRhLQUw+5ggv0v3StzjlJa0Vp+/5Lrwd6A0XbKgGUkcslJKw3uJeqX1NjcO4vwjZjWQJRcAA9UD26mH5NqtjaxJcPnsbd7fJxR3121ll/GBsZItMnE/63LKWz34At/0IrViX5apXGsJnJ81wCg4ahgsQJ9XLiYT5K9BRK81xGz+NNM/NkN1Bv7W1v2aXoKWMtJjaG1DFHdwKfwIDAQAB",
-  "permissions": ["tabs", "nativeMessaging"],
-  "background": { "service_worker": "background.js" }
+  "permissions": [
+    "tabs",
+    "nativeMessaging"
+  ],
+  "background": {
+    "service_worker": "background.js"
+  },
+  "content_scripts": [
+    {
+      "matches": [
+        "<all_urls>"
+      ],
+      "js": [
+        "focus.js"
+      ],
+      "run_at": "document_idle"
+    }
+  ]
 }