On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 14:42, John Nichel wrote:

> Since 
> the browser caches the username and password with the authentication 
> realm, as described earlier in this tutorial, this is not a function of 
> the server configuration, but is a question of getting the browser to 
> forget the credential information, so that the next time the resource is 
> requested, the username and password must be supplied again. There are 
> numerous situations in which this is desirable, such as when using a 
> browser in a public location, and not wishing to leave the browser 
> logged in, so that the next person can get into your bank account.

I do this all the time (as do a lot of web based services) by
authenticating using PHP scripts.  You can have sessions in PHP that
time out after a period of inactivity and if someone else tries to use
the page they will have to re-enter the username and password.  You can
allow access to other resources only through the script, though that may
not be possible with some services.

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