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From: Craig Skelton (craig_at_craigskelton.com)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 09:28:05 CST

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    The auth string is initially sent to the browser from the server as a base64
    encoded pair. From the server side, you can override the current auth
    string by simply sending a new one. Send a blank string or a string with
    invalid data, and you have effectively logged out the user...

    One has to point out that this inherently means the connection must be
    statefull in some way, since you must know when and who to
    timeout.Therefore, I wonder why you would really want to stick with basic
    http auth?