[whatwg] suggestion: LINK element for session termination

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello,

On 6/14/05, S. Mike Dierken <mdierken at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I guess that's all you really need.
> 
> > Perhaps if a new HTTP "status code" was created, to signify the
> > "logout", then that would work.  So, for example:
> >
> >  #1: The user clicks a logout button.
> >  #2: This POSTs the form.
> >  #3: This causes the server to "clean up" and return the new HTTP
> >    "status code" that signify "logged out".
> >  #4: The client receives this new HTTP "status code" and "clears"
> >    the HTTP Authentication info it has.
> > How's the one I suggested above?
> 
> Not sure if a status code or a reply header is more appropriate. The
> www-authenticate header indicates access to the resource requires
> authentication. Perhaps a header of www-unauthenticate could be created to
> do the inverse?
> In any case, the protocol work would need to be taken to IETF or some other
> body, likely after a working example of a browser & server was created
> somewhere. The server example might be as simple as a PHP page that returned
> that response header.

That's a good plan.  I'll take it up on the IETF Apps mailing list.

(Like you said, the) Server side will be easy to do.  Client side will
be more work.

I was doing some Mozilla hacking once, and just "checking out" the
source code from CVS and compiling it took forever.


See ya

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     Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

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