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

In message <c2b1248055.jim@abbeypress.net>
Jim Nagel <netsurf@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:

>Frank de Bruijn wrote on 14 May:
>> If I quit NetSurf it *does* forget the login details, as I would have
>> expected. The authentication window pops up again after a restart.
>> That's with NetSurf 3.6 (Dev CI #3538). Which version are you using?
>
>I'm using Netsurf 3.5 #3433 (with Javascript switched off at the
>moment, if that's relevant). And I'll update today, I promise. I
>usually update much more frequently; the past month or two are
>atypical.
>
>You're right, though: quitting Netsurf does forget the login details.
>So that's obviously the simple solution to my original problem.
>
>Still would like to know where Netsurf stores this info -- cache? --
>and if there'd be any way to erase it (i.e., to "log out") without
>quitting everything else that might be open.

I've been looking at the NS source code, and it appears that the
login username and password are stored as part of the session,
which is simply in RAM - as is lots of other stuff. I don't
know of any way of deleting the session information without
quitting NS. I don't have a login to your site, but it occurred
to me that I see the same behaviour with the ROOL site, so I
tried it so as to remind myself of exactly what happens. When
I have logged in, I can close the window, then open another to
the ROOL site, whereupon I'm logged in automatically. If I quit
and restart NS and open a window to ROOL, I have to log in anew.

I get the same behaviour with Firefox on Linux. If I log in to
ROOL, open a new blank window, close the ROOL window, then open
the blank window to ROOL, I'm automatically logged in; whereas
if I log in, then quit and restart FF, I need to log in anew.

So I think that restarting NS is just what you're going to have
to do.

Dave

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