Re: LOGOUT - Reset Session

On Friday 31 January 2003 15:50, Keith Spiller wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm trying to create a Logout Function and Link. My site uses a standard > htaccess file for its authentication method. After the brower requests the > username and password they have access to the protected site. > > Then users can jump to a special Messaging section where I wrote a php > script that retieves the $REMOTE_USER value and checks it against a message > database. > > My problem is that I'd like to have a logout link that will dump the values > the user had entered for their username and password so that they can no > longer access the messages, neither with a back button nor just by going > back to the site url. But since I am retrieving the $REMOTE_USER value > using PHP4, it seems some how it remebers the username and password. Yes, that's because after HTTP authentication, each time the browser requests a page it'll send the user and password as well. > Is > that because I need to destroy the session and remove or replace the > session cookies? I do not know what the session name is, nor how to check > it. HTTP authentication are not related to sessions. Have a look in the manual > HTTP authentication with PHP -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* New members are urgently needed in the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Yourself. Apply within. */