[mod_python] Best way to logout a session

Nick nick at dd.revealed.net
Fri Feb 11 13:02:21 EST 2005


In theory if you send a 401 when the person logs out, you will force the 
browser to flush the credentials they previously supplied.

Nick

Chris Jackson wrote:
> I'm looking to a way of logging out a session putting the user back at
> the Apache authentication dialog box.
> 
> What I've done so far is to create a URL that links to a logout
> publisher handler.  The handler has:
> 
>     sess = Session(req, sessid, None, 36000, 0)
>     sess.load()
>     sess.invalidate()
>     sess.delete()
>     req.internal_redirect('/myurl/login')      
> 
> However when revisiting the login page, the browser still holds the
> user's information, but i'd want it to return the user to the actual
> apache authentication handler.
> 
> ~= Chris =~
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