How do I log out with HTTP Basic?

Question

Browsers rarely make it easy to log out of a site once you've logged on with HTTP Basic authentication. How can I do this?

(This form of authentication is rarely used on the public web, but the intranet I'm on uses it all the time. It's the one where you get a pop-up dialog asking you for a username and password.)

Answer 1

Log in with a nonsense user using the address bar. For example, if you logged on to http://codereview.internal.company, enter this:

http://logout:[e-mail]

h/t Riyadi on tolaris.com

Answer 2

For chrome browser you can restart the chrome application completely by typing in the address bar.

chrome://restart

Another way is that, always open the browser in incognito mode. For chrome the shortcut is

ctrl + shift + n

Another way you can try it out is that, try to give wrong credentials if you want to logout. Say,

randometxt@localhost:3000

*sometimes, this works.