Hi all, I am using HTTP basic authentication (using HTTPS) to authenticate the users who access my HTML pages. I am using Perl scripts to manipulate the POST data that I get from the user input. I would like to have a logout button, but I read somewhere that it's not possible to have a logout button with HTTP basic authentication. Is this true? If so, do you know what other options I have that would support a logout button? I heard about cookie-based authentication, but I'm not sure how that works and what I would need to implement this logout button. I know that Perl has some world wide web modules, but being a novice to Perl, I'm not sure how to apply those modules. Is there some sample code that I can look at? Also, the user can click 'back' without the page expiring. Is this a security issue? If so, why? Finally, how can I make the page expire? Can I do this with Perl? I heard about this "session" variable that I can keep track of in my HTML pages, but I'm not sure how that works. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Monica

In reply to Web logout button and HTML page expiration by Anonymous Monk

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