I am seeing different (odd) behaviour when I log out of RT 3.6.5
using FireFox and Opera. With FireFox 2.0.0.3, once logged into
RT, when I click on the “Logout” button, FireFox actually logs me
out of RT and I see the login screen (with the two username and
password boxes).
With Opera 9.2, when I do the same thing, I get a brief screen
including a string telling me that I logged out and a hotlink
stating that I can log in again if I want to, and then – BAM!!!
I am immediately back to the previous session as though I had not
logged out at all! In fact, short of exiting my Opera session,
there is no way I have found to actually log out of RT 3.6.5 using
Opera 9.2 – what is going on here?
With Opera 9.2, when I do the same thing, I get a brief screen
including a string telling me that I logged out and a hotlink
stating that I can log in again if I want to, and then – BAM!!!
I am immediately back to the previous session as though I had not
logged out at all! In fact, short of exiting my Opera session,
there is no way I have found to actually log out of RT 3.6.5 using
Opera 9.2 – what is going on here?
Sounds like an Opera bug: You would experience this if it’s not managing
cookies the way it’s supposed to or managing it’s cache properly. In this
case, the login cookie is either not being cleared when you explicitly log
out; or Opera is caching dynamic pages, then blindly reading back from cache
without doing any sort of sanity checking on whether or not cached data is
still valid.
Sounds like an Opera bug: You would experience this if it’s not managing
cookies the way it’s supposed to or managing it’s cache properly. In this
case, the login cookie is either not being cleared when you explicitly log
out; or Opera is caching dynamic pages, then blindly reading back from cache
without doing any sort of sanity checking on whether or not cached data is
still valid.
Thanks. I’ll try upgrading to the latest version of Opera and
try again to see if its fixed in that version. Meanwhile, I’ll
stick to using FireFox.