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Alaric B Snell scripsit:
> >Please elaborate. Is it a browser issue? a server issue? Is it
> >implemented but just not turned on. Name names. Who deserves praise and
> >who deserves calumny? Inquiring minds want to know.
>
> Let me see...
>
> http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg012483.html
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> http://www.unixpapa.com/auth/basic.html#sec2.2
> \-> ('2.2.3. Why Digest Authentication Isn't Used')
Specifically, BorgClients interoperate only with BorgServers and vice versa.
> and browsers don't seem to provide an accessible interface to "log out"
> by making the browser forget the username/password combo it has stored
> for the realm there and then at the click of a button.
This was one thing Lotus Notes got right: hit F5 and you were logged out.
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John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
O beautiful for patriot's dream that sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law!
-- one of the verses not usually taught in U.S. schools
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