[Grok-dev] Feature request "Log out"

Sebastian Ware sebastian at urbantalk.se
Thu Nov 6 03:39:07 EST 2008


I think one should seriously consider changing the authentication  
method. Lacking logout is a bit of an embarrassment, regardless of  
what the underlying reasons are.

Mvh Sebastian

4 nov 2008 kl. 19.13 skrev Christian Theune:

> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 12:00 +0100, Sebastian Ware wrote:
>> I would like to be able to log out from the application manangement
>> screen
>>
>>   http://127.0.0.1:8080/applications
>>
>> Is there any good reason why this action doesn't exist in the  
>> interface?
>
> I'm not sure whether this still holds, but HTTP Basic auth "logout"  
> was
> nearly impossible a few years ago and always was fragile and  
> cumbersome
> from an end user's perspective: the protocol never specified it and  
> thus
> all clients act differently.
>
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