Re: [Tools-discuss] de-authenticate?

[Elwyn Davies <elwynd at dial.pipex.com>]

Samuel Weiler wrote:
> Aside from messing with cookies on my end, is there a trivial way to 
> deauthenticate from the tools site(s)?  I suggest adding such a link 
> to most pages, PARTICULARLY the NomCom pages.  (I was asked for NomCom 
> feedback at one address, but I'm typically authenticated to the tools 
> site from a different address, and I'm having challenges swithcing 
> between my identities.
> -- Sam
I had more or less the same problem... Henrik sent me this 'hack' as a 
workaround.
> BTW it would also be useful to have a means to logout from a session - 
> > once logged in with the 'wrong' email address, there is no way to 
> > relogin with the 'right' email address apart from clearing the session 
> > with browser capabilities.
>   
>
> Yes.  One of the woes of using http auth.  Why couldn't whoever specified
> that have provided a logout mechanism?  (Oh, wait, that was maybe us...)
> And why haven't the browser manufacturers provide the ability to drop an
> ID?
>
> You can always achieve the effect of logging out by appending a dummy
> user ID to the URL, to make the browser drop the current ID:
>
>   https://dummy at wiki.tools.ietf.org/group/nomcom/09/input
>
> but that's a hack.
On Mozilla Firefox you can also de-authenticate by using the 'clear 
recent history'/details/active logins option from tools menu (in the 
recent 3.5.3 release .. the menu option is different for older versions 
- it is buried in the 'options' tabs).

Regards,
Elwyn

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