On 24/01/2012, at 10:29 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > Hi there, > > in the past few weeks I've been reminded about the lack for a logout() from > HTTP authentication several times -- I believe first in webapps, then the > IETF http-auth mailing list, then also in an internal product discussion. > > This is a very old issue, a good summary is in the Mozilla bug: > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287957>. > > I hear that this might be covered by the proposed charter of the new web > cryptography WG, <http://www.w3.org/2011/11/webcryptography-charter.html>, > and I'd love to find out that it's going to happen over there. If it does > not, it would be good to find out as soon as possible, and then maybe find > another venue in the W3C (webapps?); unless you want the IETF to start on JS > APIs :-) > > Best regards, Julian > > bcc'd lots of people who I hope are interested... >
An alternative way to implement this might be through the use of http headers which also gives the server knowledge of the process, although i agree that a js api is definitely desirable. Thanks, Cameron Jones
