http basic authentication “log out”

Question

HTTP basic authentication credentials are stored until the browser is closed, but is there a way to remove the credentials before the browser is closed?

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Answer 1

What has worked for me in Chrome (Version 66) is to send an Ajax request to an URL that returns 401. That way the basic authentication cache seems to be cleared.

var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.open("GET", "/url_that_returns_401", true);
xhttp.send();