James, in Chrome of Firefox (and probably others), turn on the feature that
"restores sessions" when you restart.

For chrome you go to this URI: "chrome://settings/"

Then choose,  in the section "On Startup", the radio button "Continue where
I left off".

Then try logging into CAS, close the browser, and come back.  You will see
that session cookies have been restored.

I was surprised too...   My naivete has been memorialized on this very
mailing list :).

David Ohsie
Software Architect
EMC Corporation


> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Sumners [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 3:27 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [cas-user] closing your browser message
> 
> Could you please provide some more information on this? I'm searching for
> information on this change but am not having much luck. As far as I can
tell,
> session cookies are still a thing.
> 
> ~ James
> 
> On Jul 8, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Trenton D. Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > For security reasons, please Log Out and Exit your web browser when you
> are done accessing services that require authentication!
> >
> >
> > The above security message is no longer useful, and gives users a false
> sense of security.  Closing your browser will no longer remove the cookie.
> Unfortunately, browser developers thought it useful to make closing of the
> browser not constitute "end of session" anymore.  I do not know why they
> did this.  I thought the cookie spec was very specific about that, but
it's been
> so long since I looked at it.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way of making browsers honour what we all once
> held dear?
> >
> > --
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