- From: Nicolas Alvarez <nicolas.alvarez@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:41:03 -0300
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Tim wrote: > I'm doing some research and I'm interested in learning about any past > proposals to augment HTTP authentication (basic/digest) with a logout > feature. I have spent several hours reading mailing list archives and > searching the web, and while I've found plenty of related information, > I'm surprised to find no concrete proposals for this feature. I don't see how that concerns HTTP; it's a missing feature on the browsers. Credentials are sent on every request. All you need is a logout button on the *browser* that makes it stop sending credentials. Go file feature requests to the browser vendors :) -- Nicolas (I read mailing lists through Gmane. Please don't Cc me on replies; it makes me get one message on my newsreader and another on email.)
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