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[H. Fox]

Firefox 1.5 has the following changelog entry:

    As part of the "Clear Private Data" feature, a way to
    clear HTTP Auth information.

Found at http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.5-comprehensive.html

Hagan

On 11/30/05, H. Fox <haganfox at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 11/30/05, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > I understand this entirely -- because the test server is using
> > .htaccess to protect the site, the browser is caching the username/
> > password pair as part of HTTP Basic authentication.  There's not really
> > a way for ?action=logout to tell the browser to forget this information;
> > with HTTP Basic authentication the only reliable way to log out is to
> > completely close all of the browser windows.
>
> Actually there's a way that's not reliable, but it can be "reliable
> enough".  The Light Skin's HandleLogoutL() function provides a crude
> example.
>
> Hagan
>