Re: Protection From Inference (was Re: Drawbacks of using BYTEA for PK?)

From: Kragen Sitaker <kragen+pgsql(at)airwave(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Protection From Inference (was Re: Drawbacks of using BYTEA for PK?)
Date: 2004-01-13 00:12:58
Message-ID: 20040112161258.F11165@fs.corp.airwave.com
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:15:47AM +1100, Alex Satrapa wrote:
> **using form-based access, the user can log out when leaving the
> terminal. Using HTTP basic, the browser is likely to remember their
> login for the entire session, and sometimes even between sessions.

You can persuade the browser to forget the password just by sending it
a 401. Unfortunately, the user then has to know to hit 'cancel' on the
resulting dialog box.

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