Re: Logout Button

I've encountered a situation which I believe is not uncommon.  Many
"Internet kiosks" have their their browsers tightened up.  Ther is no
way to close the browser or reboot the machine.  You can even use the
"back" button to see the pages viewed by the previous users of the
kiosk.

While I believe that such kiosks have huge security and privacy
concerns by themselves, are there any way to mimimise the potential
for abuse in the case of EZproxy?  If a "logout" button is out of the
question then we have to rely on timeouts and audits.

Ernest

On 2/21/06, Chris Zagar <zagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I was wondering how I could add a "Logout Button" to our Proxy server
> > page.  Thank you in advance!
>
> It is possible to log out from an EZproxy session using a URL similar to:
>
>         http://ezproxy.yourlib.org:2048/logout
>
> but the difficulty is that your users are typically already off at a
> vendor web site, and there's no way to reliably insert a logout button
> across all of your vendor's web pages, so in reality, there doesn't tend
> to be a practical way to do this.  If you had a rather cooperative group
> of users, you could have them create a bookmark to the logout URL and have
> them use that.
>
> Chris

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