480364 - Add a button to stop sending HTTP authentication credentials to the Realm for the current page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300002

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[hank.gay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011912 Firefox/3.0.6

It should be possible to "log out" of a secure web site/application that uses HTTP authentication (Basic or Digest), and I shouldn't have to dig through the Clear Private Data settings to do it. Please add a button/link/gadget/something to allow me to indicate I no longer want to send authentication tokens to the Realm for the current page.

Reproducible: Always




I did try to search for a similar enhancement request, but I didn't see anything relevant in the first page or so.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This is better implemented as extension, most user don't need such a button.

Comment 2

[hank.gay]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is better implemented as extension, most user don't need such a button.

I think most users would find it useful if they could log out of a web site that used the authentication mechanism built into the standard. I also think most developers would prefer to use the authentication mechanism built into the standard.