> well, not the login "form", but the login prompt that is 
> thrown by the 
> web server.  I do log on as B, and the browser seems to know 
> I'm B (the 
> cgi.auth_user variable has changed), but it looks like the query to 
> check and see if B is in my database never actually ran... which kind 
> of makes me think that somewhere, something that I can't see 
> is hanging 
> onto A.  And since I can stop the behavior when I nullify idleTimeout 
> by setting it to 1...

Can you describe how you set up your web based security? I mean your web
server settings to enable this.

> 
> >> But.
> >>
> >> If my idletimeout was set to something "normal" like say 
> 500 seconds,
> >> and after logout I closed my browser, entered brand new
> >> information in
> >> the server prompt and the user was not located in my database, they
> >> would see the "you failed" template as expected.
> >
> > I'm confused. You said the situation was bad if idleTimeout 
> was not 1, 
> > yet 500 is not 1 either.
> 
> Sorry. I was just speaking in general terms in the first instance and 
> getting specific in the second.  The main point stays the 
> same, though. 
>   IdleTimeout=1 is Good.  IdleTimeout >1 is Bad.

But of course, idletimeout=1 would mean you timeout every hit, right?
Does yor query run every hit?

> > Can you post the entire code block? Not everything of 
> course, I don't 
> > need to see the HTML of your logon form, but you get the idea.
> 
> 
> I don't have a logon form.  I'm letting the server do the 
> authentication.  All I do authorize after that.  No HTML 
> login at all.  
> This is why I think what I'm experiencing is loads different 
> from much 
> of the advice I've gotten before, because I'm using server auth NOT 
> home-grown-HTML auth.

Any reason why? Do you have to use it like that?

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