Re: Does anyone know how to log-off from a protected Webserver document

In article <36D08AD9.789AF214_at_semantec.de>,   Ingo Etienne <ingo_etienne_at_semantec.de> wrote:
> Hi Maarten,
>
> as far as I know this is not possible due to the fact that the browser
> actually caches your login and sends it to the server each time it is
> requested.
> But if you find a solution tell it to this newsgroup !
>

This is true if you rely on the Basic authentication built into most web servers. There are alternative solutions however, that enable a logoff operation. These solutions are typically based on cookie/database/session keys that are passed with each request to a protected document heirarchy. The tokens can then be timed out, deauthenticated, etc.

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