Does Anyone known how cpanel does logout?

[Conor]

I run a password protected section of my site and Id love for people to be able to logout without having to close the browser window. I hadnt thought it was possible til I saw it in Cpanel. Anyone aware of how they do it.

[ray326]

This isn't really an authenticated site, it's just a bit of cookie trickery. If your site uses basic authentication then you'd have to do something to flush the browsers' authentication cache and you have no way of doing that.

[PeOfEo]

if its a cookie based or session based login you could just make all of the values null, to check the login do a length statement of the cookie. If the cookies values are null or there is no cookie it will return 0 right? I do not know what kind of scripting you are using and what kind of scripting this cpannel is using, I am just saying sort of what I do out loud for logins of mine that are cookie or session based.

[Conor]

I could do a logout If I was using php but for this I had to use .htaccess and it seems thats what cpanel uses.

[PeOfEo]

ah I see. Well, I am going to exit this thread, have fun ;)

[ray326]

Originally posted by RefreshF5
I could do a logout If I was using php but for this I had to use .htaccess and it seems thats what cpanel uses.
Using .htaccess would indicate you're using the server's basic auth. You can't force a true "logout". You could combine cookie info with a 403 response to simulate it, though.