On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:55 PM, John Hampton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Olemis Lang wrote: >> ... I decided that I will not use forms auth, or any other workaround >> (e.g. the one provided by Noah ... thnx Noah for the pointers ...), >> since IMO every web app / framework like Trac should have a (... >> decent or not ...) logout mechanism so that users be able to close >> their respective sessions, thus allowing multiple users to use a >> single PC | browser ... and many other use cases. That's the way it >> should be ... let's imagine now that Person1 needs to work in >> «wonderful» PC1, and when Person2 executes 'switch to user' or >> 'logout' command she founds out that no logout is performed and >> besides that the only solution at hand is to restart «wonderful» PC1 >> ... I really dont see the point in doing so ... IMHO this is a serious >> issue ... > > So, first, I think your use case is a bit flawed. First, no restart of > <<wonderful>> PC1 need be performed. Simply closing and re-opening the > browser will suffice. >
But in my case ... I use Opera ... now I have 36 tabs opened, different contents in each one of them, let's say I have multiple downloads in the built-in downloads manager, some of them do not allow restart so if I close my browser they are lost and I *must* start it all over again from the beginning ... and I must access multiple (not a few ... ;) Trac sites either as a developper or as an admin, many times a day ... and every time I'd need to close my browser ... at least for me closing my browser is almost like shutting down my PC ... (in fact I never shut down my PC ... well ok ... since almost 7 months ago when I upgraded my HDD ... perhaps I am an hibernation adict ... ;) > More than that, however, is the fact that most users aren't used to HTTP > Auth anyway. Most users are used to form based auth. This is what you > get with Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, Hotmail, etc. > You are right ... however in my case they are, and that's what they want ... and in some others ... that's the only choice I have ;) > Regardless, I hope you get your plugin working properly and it meets > your needs. > :) ... Thnx ... -- Regards, Olemis. Blog ES: http://simelo-es.blogspot.com/ Blog EN: http://simelo-en.blogspot.com/ Featured article: Sobrepasa las 100 descargas el módulo dutest --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
