Thank you for your quick response; however, I have a follow on question
regarding BASIC authentication and WebDAV. If I implement FORM based
authentication will I still be able to drag and drop folders using Slide's
WebDAV capabilities and perform File | Open | Open as Web Folder from
Internet Explorer. Exactly how will that work?

As always thanks in advance.
Kevin

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From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "kevin ritter"
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: Logout with basic autorization


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>
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, kevin ritter wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:41:01 -0600
> > From: kevin ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >      kevin ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Logout with basic autorization
> >
> > Can anyone one verify if this is really the case, that is, to logout
with
> > BASIC authentication you have to close the browser window? This seems to
be
> > a little goofy. Are there any work arounds?
> >
>
> As far as I know, this is correct.  The problem is that when you are using
> BASIC authentication, the browser sends the credentials on every request,
> and I don't know of any way to tell it to stop doing so.
>
> If you use form-based login, invalidating the session is all that is
> required to log the user off.
>
> > Thank you in advance. Peace
> > Kevin Ritter
>
> Craig
>
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