Re: Protection From Inference (was Re: Drawbacks of using BYTEA for PK?) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kragen Sitaker
Subject Re: Protection From Inference (was Re: Drawbacks of using BYTEA for PK?)
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Msg-id 20040112161258.F11165@fs.corp.airwave.com
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In response to Protection From Inference (was Re: Drawbacks of using BYTEA for PK?)  (Alex Satrapa <alex@lintelsys.com.au>)
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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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