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refra_151287
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Feb 26, 2017

HTTP Monitor Logout

Hi, we want to monitor HTTP application using login page with dedicated username and password. but we need to ensure that F5 logout after longing and receiving the correct status code, as if F5 didn'...
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domokos_23867's avatar
domokos_23867
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Feb 26, 2017

What kind of authentication are you using? Basic Authentication does not support it by default so you need to setup some tricks. See this link for some tips: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4154187/how-to-logout-user-for-basic-http-authentication I think the best solution would be an external monitor that you can script.

 

Another popular authentication method nowadays seem to be the JSON WEB TOKEN. See here some intro (the takeaway is that the app has a /logout page and they destroy the tokens). --> https://github.com/dwyl/learn-json-web-tokens. That should be easy you just have to chain the GETs with one to /logout.