How to Delete authentication cookie

vipul mahajan vipul.mahajan at spectross.com
Tue Feb 21 05:54:19 PST 2012


I thought it can be done by modifying "cgiSetCookie" function call in "cgi_set_sid" function in var.c. In the parameters of "cgiSetCookie" time is '0' which means cookie will expire when the browser will close. If we change it can it be possible?

> You'd need to check with your browser vendor, but no browser that I am aware of provides this functionality (Firefox might be able to be extended for this via a plugin).
>
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> On Feb 20, 2012, at 11:39 PM, vipul mahajan wrote:
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> > And how can I found that? Currently which browsers provide such facility?
> >
> >
> >> Only if your browser provides this functionality.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Feb 20, 2012, at 11:26 PM, vipul mahajan wrote:
> >>
> >>> I noticed that once authentication is done, CUPS GUI never ask for username password till we restart the browser. I want that after fixed amount of time that authentication should expire & it should re-ask for username password. Is it possible to do so?
> >>>
> >>>> There is no authentication cookie, CUPS uses HTTP authentication (via WWW-Authenticate/Authorization headers).
> >>>>
> >>>> The only cookie set by CUPS is for cross-site scripting protection.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Feb 20, 2012, at 3:12 AM, vipul mahajan wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I want to delete the authentication cookie set by CUPS GUI when a user login. Is it possible to do so?
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