RE: [PHP] destroing $PHP_AUTH_USER and $PHP_AUTH_PASS

It's not caching the page, it's caching the credentials. AFAIK you don't have to ask user to exit the browser, just send another 403 or two. At 07:14 1.7.2000 -0400, John Coggeshall wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >I've never been able to get this to work either. > >I believe it has to do with the browser 'caching' it in memory so you're not >prompted for each subdir or whatever. The only suggestion I have is to tell >the user to close the browser (actually, ALL occurences of it) and re-open >it again to clear it out. Sucks I know, but that's the only thing that's >worked so far. and I tried to set them to null, to "", to unset(), etc... > > >----------------- > >Ever considered using a few headers to tell the browser not to cache the >page? Another idea that I have off the top of my head is possibly simluating >different "resources" for each subdir that needs to be validated? I bet if >you telneted to port 80 and looked at the headers the server sends, you >would be able to mimic them and make it so it's different every time (as far >as what the browser thinks it's trying to validate) so it'll always ask to >be revalidated. > >Just a few thoughts. > >John > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net ------end of quote------ ____________________________________________________________ Cynic: A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is the essential part of virtue. cynic@mail.cz ICQ: 2808 2505