Re: how to make Netsurf forget its logged-in state

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 01:21:43AM +0100, Jim Nagel wrote:
> I'm tinkering with something on my own website, an area that requires
> the viewer to provide a username and password.
>
> I successfully get in with my own username and password. Now I want
> to test those of another user.
>
> So I click the link that takes me to the subsite -- and I'm straight
> in; I don't see any box asking for username and password.
>
> Tried Ctrl-F5, menu Reload, tried deleting from the History file,
> tried quitting and relaunching Netsurf. Still never see the login box
> again.
>
> How do I "log out"? (If that's the correct term in this situation.
> Maybe it's more like changing the "state".)
>
> --
> Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
>
>

You appear to be using basic authentication login. In which case you
can get all the gory details [1] on stack overflow. Efectively basic
auth has no way of logging out!

NetSurf implements basic auth by simply keeping the details in the
memory based url database untill the browser is quit (inline with
every other browser) and short of a load of javascript messing about
(which I doubt we get right) there is nothing to be done and we work
as specified.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233507/how-to-log-out-user-from-web-site-using-basic-authentication


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