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   Re: [xml-dev] Re: Cookies at XML Europe 2004 -- Call for Participation

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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
> 
> 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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