224195 - ClearAuthenticationCache not working?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Description

[Mikhail]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

<SCRIPT>document.execCommand("ClearAuthenticationCache");</SCRIPT> is not
working (not implemented?)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create page with HTTP login ("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized") with realm, and
create link "Logout" with JS code like this
document.execCommand("ClearAuthenticationCache");
2. In the Mozilla browser login to this page, now you can leave this page and
return back and it will not ask for retyping password even if you will "Logout".
3. To see how it should be look it in MS IE

Actual Results:  
Mozilla continues to sent login/password in header to any page

Expected Results:  
after executing "ClearAuthenticationCache" in should stop sending login/password
in header

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

Not sure this is part of ECMA-262.

IE6SP1 or above required:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/constants/clearauthenticationcache.asp

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Not a JS Engine issue. JS Engine deals with the abstract JavaScript
language, and does not include DOM objects or methods.

Reassigning to DOM Level 0 -

Comment 3

[Eric Butler]

Could someone please at least confirm this one? As a web developer I can say it
would be really nice to see this implemented, even if it's not part of the spec.

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

its shouldnøt work

however you can use an extension:
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/clearhttpauth