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 4             How do you log off? Suppose I log in with the guest username but later I want to use another username, how do I log  off from the guest user name?
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 8             To log off from a TWiki site, you must exit your browser and reconnect to the site.  When asked, enter the new username and password.
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10             Why is this?
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12             Many TWiki sites use HTTP Basic Authentication, which pops up a window asking for username and password.  Once entered, the browser remembers them, and supplies them as part of subsequent references to the site.
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14             HTTP is a stateless protocol.  The web server remembers nothing about a user between individual access -- and it can take several accesses to load a single page.  The web browser must remember the state of each transaction.  You are never really "logged into" a web site -- you have given the browser the codes to unlock each request.  Only if the browser does not have credentials to present to a site will it ask for them.
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16             Most browsers do not give the user a way to "forget" the username and password.  To log in as a different user, you must exit the browser (perhaps all instances of the browser), and reconnect to the TWiki site.
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20             -- TWiki:Main/CarlMikkelsen - 14 Apr 2003