The only way to expire a basic auth login is to close all instances of the browser. This is not a mod_perl limitation; it's just the way basic auth works.
It's pretty easy to spin a mod_perl authentication handler to take the place of basic auth, though. There's some recipes in the cookbook. -Fran > -----Original Message----- > From: Francesc Guasch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:35 PM > To: modperl > Subject: Basic Auth logout > > > this has been asked before, and I've found in the archives > there is no way I could have a logout page for the Basic > Auth in apache. > > Is there nothing I can do ? This is required only for the > development team, so we need to let mozilla or IE forget > about the username and password. > > This is a site built with HTML::Mason. So I tried > <%init> > $m->clear_buffer(); > $m->abort(401); > </%init> > with no luck at all > > And would this be possible with mod_perl2 ? > > -- > frankie >
