Usability: Allow users to clear HTTP Basic authentication details ('Logout')

👁 Image	Daniel O'Connor Reporter
	Description • 16 years ago

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) See also Bug 521588 When you authenticate with a site using HTTP Basic authentication, there is no visibility of your current credentials in the firefox UI. Additionally, there is no obvious/easy mechanism to logout. Consider adding a method to clear HTTP Basic Auth credentials easily. Reproducible: Always

👁 Image	Jo Hermans
	Comment 1 • 16 years ago

Clear Recent History->Active Logins (in the details) is used to clear the authentication.

👁 Image	Daniel O'Connor Reporter
	Comment 2 • 16 years ago

Though that works, it's hard to locate. Additionally, it's the nuclear option: You can't 'log out' of just one site, it's everything. I'd love to see this represented more obviously. Bug 521588 mentions it in passing. I'd visualize this as either appearing in the location bar or near the HTTPS 'secure' padlock. IE [[mozilla.org] username @ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi ] or "User: username [Logout]"

👁 Image	Nickolay_Ponomarev
	Updated • 16 years ago