1413813 - ˋTools → Password Manager → log outˊ does not log out

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect)

Description

[lvm]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.1
Build ID: 20171016030418

Steps to reproduce:

log in to a site e.g. this one - bugzilla.mozilla.org
click on tools-password manager-log out


Actual results:

nothing


Expected results:

seamonkey should've logged out of my account.

As I understand, there is no common login protocol - some sites use cookies with no common naming convention, some add session id to URL, so making logout work in all circumstances may be tricky, but having a non-working logout is confusing and insecure. Perhaps it should be removed?

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

For me that never worked, I tested back to SM 2.19.

a) I haven't a clue for what that menu item is. @reporter, can you site Help chapter
   or similar?
b) No visible reaction in Browser, Mail, CZ, HTML Composer(!), ...
c) <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=DUPs1413813&sharer_id=41036> shows some possible DUPs, 
   also Query http://shortlinks.de/q78q

Comment 2

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

As far as I see it this only works on sites using http authentication. Just tested with a private site and it works in 2.49.2. After log out I get a new prompt.


I would either close this as worksforme or just do a documentation update.

Comment 3

[Rainer Bielefeld]

I haven't a clue what "http auth." might be, even not after (quickly) having read <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Authentication>

Do we have an example URL to demonstrate where that this function works?

Comment 4

[Rainer Bielefeld]

I tried <https://postman-echo.com/basic-auth> 
    Username: postman
    Password: password

ˋTools → Password Manager → log outˊ seems to work fine:
11. After having logged in do ˋRightclick → Reloadˊ several times
    » Always "authenticated: true"                                                   :-)
12. Menu  ˋTools → Password Manager → log outˊ
    » no visible reaction
13. ˋRightclick → Reloadˊ
    Authentication input pane appears                                                :-)

So it seems to work fine.

Comment 5

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

http://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd

http://user:[e-mail]/basic-auth/user/passwd

Comment 6

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Lets agree that it works as designed and see that we enhance the help in bug 1414784.

If not please reopen.