Django logout problem

Question

Here is the problem I am facing with the Django Authenetication

1. Access a page that requires a login.
2. Logout (accessing django.contrib.auth.logout)
3. Access the original login-protected page. You are still logged in

Any ideas how to solve the problem?

MY Django Session Settings are

SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = True SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 3600

Thanks, Sujit

Answer 1

Basically, this should work:

from django.contrib.auth import logout

def logout_view(request):
    logout(request)
    # Redirect to a success page.

Could you clarify by posting your view if it's not something like this?

Answer 2

In Django 1.4.* I've had problems with the logout() function. It simply wasn't logging out my users.

Now I'm just using the contributed view to logout users and it works perfectly. Simply add this to your root urls.py file if you don't want to do anything else special:

(r'^logout/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.logout', {'next_page': '/login'}),

and you'll be good to go.

Happy Djangoing.