Can customers log out from protected gallery?

virtusvirtus Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
edited September 11, 2011 in SmugMug Support
Sorry if this has been asked before - all the logout questions seem to apply to photographers and not customers.

If a customer enters the password for a protected gallery how do they log out? For example, a new bride was at a public computer and she entered her wedding gallery using the password. She could not find a "logout" link and was concerned because anyone that uses that computer can see the gallery.

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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    virtus wrote: »
    Sorry if this has been asked before - all the logout questions seem to apply to photographers and not customers.

    If a customer enters the password for a protected gallery how do they log out? For example, a new bride was at a public computer and she entered her wedding gallery using the password. She could not find a "logout" link and was concerned because anyone that uses that computer can see the gallery.
    If, on the enter password page this box is not checked.
    Don't save this password on this computer.
    The cookies need to be deleted.
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  • SamirDSamirD Registered Users Posts: 3,474 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    Allen wrote: »
    If, on the enter password page this box is not checked.
    Don't save this password on this computer.
    The cookies need to be deleted.
    Hmm...I never thought about it, but this is a security issue. Any likelihood of a logout link in the future? Most public systems are 'locked-down' and don't allow the user to do things like clear cookies.
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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    SamirD wrote: »
    Hmm...I never thought about it, but this is a security issue. Any likelihood of a logout link in the future? Most public systems are 'locked-down' and don't allow the user to do things like clear cookies.
    Yelp, just backackards. The box should say "check this to remain logged in"
    and that saved in a cookie.
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  • SamirDSamirD Registered Users Posts: 3,474 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2011
    But even on sites where you can use a cookie when logging in (like dgrin), there's always a logout or clear cookie button. I've rarely seen a site without one.
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  • heavyd-ronheavyd-ron Registered Users Posts: 3 Beginner grinner
    edited April 8, 2011
    But even on sites where you can use a cookie when logging in (like dgrin), there's always a logout or clear cookie button. I've rarely seen a site without one.

    Anyone else have a solution to this? I am also looking to implement a "Logout" function into my site for visitors.

    Seems like if a checkbox exists to disable the cookies, there must be a function that can be called by a link to logout and do the same?
  • robeorobeo Registered Users Posts: 4 Beginner grinner
    edited September 9, 2011
    I just had a customer ask me about logging out. This is something we really need.
  • SamirDSamirD Registered Users Posts: 3,474 Major grins
    edited September 11, 2011
    As a workaround, I bet you could make a static link to your logout link and it would clear a customers cookies in the same way it clears ours.
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