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.)
4 Answers
For most browsers
Log in with a nonsense user using the address bar. For example, if you logged on to and loaded the URL , enter this:
