Re: IE 5.5,authentication,PHP sessions: IE never stops
| From: | Simon Garner | Date: | Mon, 05 Mar 2001 03:28:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: IE 5.5,authentication,PHP sessions: IE never stops | ||
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From: "Ken" <kenzo@free-music.com>
>
> Nope - with IE5.5, even with that box NOT checked, the user remains logged
in until either a) the computer is restarted, or b) a new
user-authentication header is sent, AND the user clears out the password
field and hits OK. Otherwise the user stays logged in, in spite of the HTTP
spec.
>
Admittedly I'm running IE5.01, but if I close and reopen the browser it will
pop up the authentication dialogue again (with values filled out, if I did
Save Password).
Does this really not happen in 5.5?
>
> This is how I will wind up going, EXCEPT the users will be required to
click "logout", since merely closing the browser, in IE5.5, does not seem to
clear the user/password from the browser's memory, NOR does it clear any
session cookie. Again, works fine in other browsers, per spec.
>
You mean it doesn't clear per-session cookies (expiry=0) either? Cripes...
What Windows version is this under?