2:21 a.m.
I'm tinkering with something on my own website, an area that requires
the viewer to provide a username and password.
I successfully get in with my own username and password. Now I want
to test those of another user.
So I click the link that takes me to the subsite -- and I'm straight
in; I don't see any box asking for username and password.
Tried Ctrl-F5, menu Reload, tried deleting from the History file,
tried quitting and relaunching Netsurf. Still never see the login box
again.
How do I "log out"? (If that's the correct term in this situation.
Maybe it's more like changing the "state".)
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
2:52 a.m.
On 12 May 2016 as I do recall,
Jim Nagel wrote:
I'm tinkering with something on my own website, an area that
requires
the viewer to provide a username and password.
I successfully get in with my own username and password. Now I want
to test those of another user.
So I click the link that takes me to the subsite -- and I'm straight
in; I don't see any box asking for username and password.
Tried Ctrl-F5, menu Reload, tried deleting from the History file,
tried quitting and relaunching Netsurf. Still never see the login box
again.
How do I "log out"? (If that's the correct term in this situation.
Maybe it's more like changing the "state".)
Clearing the cache/cookie file?
(This worked for me in a remote site where the 'logout' link didn't function
with Netsurf, but then the site was setting cookies to store log-in status.)
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1:27 p.m.
Harriet Bazley wrote on 12 May:
Clearing the cache/cookie file?
Thanks.
Cookies: none involved -- it's my own site I'm talking about, and it
doesn't make any cookies.
Cache: Is there an easy way to clear the Netsurf cache? Where is it?
From the web page displayed in Netsurf, menu>Utilities offers
Hotlist,
History and Cookies; no mention of Cache. The relevant History entry
can be cleared, but that does not cure my present problem.
Iconbar menu leads to History and to Cookies, but no mention of Cache.
Iconbar Choices includes Cache, but the resulting dialogue does not
mention clearing it.
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
2:25 p.m.
It would help if you could elaborate on this login process that your site
relies on . I am also curious to know how a session is maintained as you
mentioned that cookies are not used.
On May 12, 2016 8:27 PM, "Jim Nagel" <netsurf(a)abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
Harriet Bazley wrote on 12 May:
> Clearing the cache/cookie file?
Thanks.
Cookies: none involved -- it's my own site I'm talking about, and it
doesn't make any cookies.
Cache: Is there an easy way to clear the Netsurf cache? Where is it?
>From the web page displayed in Netsurf, menu>Utilities offers Hotlist,
History and Cookies; no mention of Cache. The relevant History entry
can be cleared, but that does not cure my present problem.
Iconbar menu leads to History and to Cookies, but no mention of Cache.
Iconbar Choices includes Cache, but the resulting dialogue does not
mention clearing it.
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
6:15 p.m.
On 12 May 2016 as I do recall,
Jim Nagel wrote:
Harriet Bazley wrote on 12 May:
> Clearing the cache/cookie file?
Thanks.
Cookies: none involved -- it's my own site I'm talking about, and it
doesn't make any cookies.
Cache: Is there an easy way to clear the Netsurf cache? Where is it?
I don't know about 'easy'...
It's a directory in !Scrap: <Wimp$ScrapDir>.WWW.NetSurf.Cache
It can be deleted manually, which may or may not help.
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Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie ==
Sattinger's Law: It works better if you plug it in.
9:36 p.m.
On 17 May 2016 Harriet Bazley wrote:
On 12 May 2016 as I do recall,
Jim Nagel wrote:
> Harriet Bazley wrote on 12 May:
> Cache: Is there an easy way to clear the Netsurf cache? Where is
it?
>
I don't know about 'easy'...
It's a directory in !Scrap: <Wimp$ScrapDir>.WWW.NetSurf.Cache
It can be deleted manually, which may or may not help.
There's a nice little utility called !ShowScrap that opens the
IDdisabled directory for you (then WWW > NetSurf > Cache as above).
I keep it on my launcher (!MenuBar).
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
2:18 p.m.
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 01:21:43AM +0100, Jim Nagel wrote:
I'm tinkering with something on my own website, an area that
requires
the viewer to provide a username and password.
I successfully get in with my own username and password. Now I want
to test those of another user.
So I click the link that takes me to the subsite -- and I'm straight
in; I don't see any box asking for username and password.
Tried Ctrl-F5, menu Reload, tried deleting from the History file,
tried quitting and relaunching Netsurf. Still never see the login box
again.
How do I "log out"? (If that's the correct term in this situation.
Maybe it's more like changing the "state".)
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Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
You appear to be using basic authentication login. In which case you
can get all the gory details [1] on stack overflow. Efectively basic
auth has no way of logging out!
NetSurf implements basic auth by simply keeping the details in the
memory based url database untill the browser is quit (inline with
every other browser) and short of a load of javascript messing about
(which I doubt we get right) there is nothing to be done and we work
as specified.
[1]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233507/how-to-log-out-user-from-web-si...
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