Re: Clear Login

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 11/08/02 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 15:26:54 GMT

In article <aqffil$8g2$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>,
Walter Roberson <roberson@ibd.nrc.ca> wrote:
>In article <aqevb2$o8i$1@bob.news.rcn.net>,
>Omar Bohsali <omarbohsali@omarbohsali.com> wrote:
>:I have an htaccess system set up. It works fine. One problem. After somebody
>:logs in, they are "always" logged in for a period of several days. How can I
>:make it that when the user closes the browser window, that they have re
>:enter their username and password?
>
>Credentials are held by the -browser-, not by the -window-. If they
>weren't, you'd have to put in your password for every frame.
>
>What do you want to have happen if the user has multiple windows open
>to your site?
>
>If you want to force credentials to be per-window then you're probably
>going to have to get into using java to manage the connection.

Most web sites that want to perform this level of control don't seem to use
htaccess or HTTP passwords at all. Instead, they require the user to fill
out a login form on the web page itself, and make use of cookies to keep
track of the session. There's usually a "Logout" link on the web pages
that invalidates the cookie, and it can also have an associated timer.

I'm sure the folks in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.* can provide better
explanations of how to implement this stuff than we can. 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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