Re: Logging out of SpamCop from Opera

RW wrote:
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> HTTP basic auth is provided on members.spamcop and mailsc.spamcop.
> There is no logout option with http-auth.  You have to completely close
> the browser session to expire the login.

I've always wondered why they didn't design a logout option to http-auth.
I came up with a simple(?) kludge that might work, with the help of the
http server.  What if you were to pass a flag (or a special URL) in the
http request that told the http server to fail the http-auth automatically?
Wouldn't that cause the browser to throw out the existing login information
and attempt logging in again?

For example <http://mailsc.spamcop.net/?logout> could tell the http server
to fail any http-auth that is included.

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