That's what I figured. You simply have to tell the browser the password was rejected; it should then discard the password they entered, and they'll be logged out. The error code that says "Sorry, wrong password!" is 401, so you want to create a script that will send back an appropriate 401 error, and then create a button or link that runs that script. The easiest way to figure out what to send is to manually conduct an HTTP conversation, and see what Apache sends when you don't give a password. That's pretty much what your script will have to send.

For standard CGI scripts, you can set the status by including a 

Status
header. I'm not sure how to do it under mod_perl.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Need help creating an Apache session logout script with Perl/CGI without the use cookies. by sgifford
in thread Need help creating an Apache session logout script with Perl/CGI without the use cookies. by Anonymous Monk

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