Re: IE 5.5,authentication,PHP sessions: IE never stops

At 03:11 PM 3/4/01 -0600, Don Read wrote: >On 04-Mar-01 Ken wrote: > > I know about the auth logout. Unfortunately, that means that when a user > > clicks "logout", he gets a "log in" prompt! And, in IE, he has to > > deliberately blank out the password field, THEN hit enter, THEN the prompt > > will come again, and he has to hit escape. > >I'm still playing with this but ... > >My script handles the authentication against a MySQL table; >and this might (probably) have to get tweaked to play well with .htaccess > >The logout script creates a "mark" (tmpfile, db entry, whatever) >then redirects to a non-protected page. My script does something very similar, but it's more advanced than that, because it handles these various scenarios: - Someone clicks "logout", then closes browser, then starts new browser and logs in as same of different user - Someone clicks "logout", then tries to log in again as same or different user - Someone just closes browser, without clicking "logout" This would all work perfectly if it weren't for IE5.5 completely refusing to behave like it has closed when it has closed. So I have to require IE5.5 users to click logout, which is really no good. Your script suffers the same problem: An IE5.5 user in the 3rd scenario would just get logged right back on without being prompted. - Ken