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You have successfully logged off.
The Logoff function saves some of your session data to disk and frees server memory associated with your session. Closing your browser window or moving to a different web site without logging off consumes a small amount of server memory until the inactive session timeout is reached after one hour.

However, as long as your browser remains open it will retain a session cookie with data that matches the session data written to disk. If you return to the Digital``Rock``Art web site, you will be logged on automatically. This presents a security issue if you access Digital``Rock``Art from a public server -- closing all running copies of the browser will delete the session cookie and prevent the next user of the public computer from misuse of your ID.

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Logoff

The Logoff function saves some of your session data to disk and frees server memory associated with your session. Closing your browser window or moving to a different web site without logging off consumes a small amount of server memory until the inactive session timeout is reached after one hour.

However, as long as your browser remains open it will retain a session cookie with data that matches the session data written to disk. If you return to the DigitalRockArt web site, you will be logged on automatically. This presents a security issue if you access DigitalRockArt from a public server -- closing all running copies of the browser will delete the session cookie and prevent the next user of the public computer from misuse of your ID.

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LogOff (last edited 2008-02-11 20:50:12 by localhost)

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