Re: [Tools-discuss] de-authenticate?

[Henrik Levkowetz <henrik at levkowetz.com>]

Hi Tony,

On 2009-10-20 23:38 Tony Hansen said the following:
> Henrik, given that there are issues with the various Logout mechanisms, 
> could there be a Logout link that goes to a page explaining the various 
> techniques and their issues/shortcomings? For example, the page could 
> include a link to 
> https://logout at wiki.tools.ietf.org/group/nomcom/09/input ** with an 
> explanation of the consequences of using it.

Done, try http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/group/nomcom/09/logout-info

> 	Tony Hansen
> 	tony at att.com
> 
> ** yes, I intentionally changed "dummy" to "logout".

I did exactly the same change when I implemented this earlier for test
purposes :-)


Best,

	Henrik

> Elwyn Davies wrote:
>> 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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