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Henning Wangerin wrote: >On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:18, Manuel Kasper wrote: > > >>You can't really "logout" with HTTP authentication; you'd have to convince >>your browser to forget the login credentials that you entered, so it's a >>browser issue. There's no "session" on m0n0wall that could be killed; the >>credentials are sent with each request. We could return a 401 response, as >>this makes some browsers clear the cached credentials, but AFAIR this >>isn't necessarily true. >> >> > >It ISN'T true. Had that discustion with a customer some years ago, so I >had to convince him ;-) > >I tested most browsers available at that time, and as far as I remember, >about 1/3 of them I tested didn't forget the credentials. > > You could change the authentication realm... This has been a suggested in more than a few PHP books. It's a hack, it's not too inelegant (sp?) and it works. Myke |