[Zope-dev] De-Authentication / Logout

Roger Espinosa roger@umich.edu
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 20:39:45 -0500


At 4:40 PM -0500 3/12/99, Jason Spisak wrote:
> Zope-misters
>
> Is there a setUser type method for AUTHENTICATED_USER? I have tried
> everything, and there isn't any docs.  I am trying to have a user logout
> without having to quit Netscape.  Any thoughts?
> --

It's always been my impression that unless Zope can be fitted with a
cookie-based-authentication system (vs. the current basic-auth), there's
*no* way to force a "logout" because of the way the *browsers* handle
basic-auth.

Roger