I am invoking this endpoint using a CSRF token just like the Discourse UI does. Observing the backend logs seems to indicate that the session is deleted on some level, but this seems to have no effect on logging the user out. E.g. if I make this call to delete but do not wipe the user’s _t cookie, t…

app/controllers/session_controller.rb master server_session["user_created_message"] = activation.message return redirect_to(users_account_created_path) else login_sso_user(sso, user) end # If it'…

@sam thanks for your quick reply. I do not want log out strict. It logs the user out of every session on every device, I just want to log the user out on the current device. I am logging the user out of Discourse as part of my own site’s logout flow. Discourse is a subdomain of my domain, so my endp…

Of course, it would be nice if every device got a unique login token; then they could be revoked/deleted individually.

@riking Thanks for bringing that up. It would be awesome if there were a way to invalidate a specific single session by making an API call from another back end server to the discourse back end, instead of having to redirect the client to the right discourse endpoint or wipe their token cookie. Howe…

What exactly goes on when DELETE /session/username is invoked?

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sam (Sam Saffron) December 9, 2016, 6:25am 5

With user api you get a unique token per device but protocol is somewhat more complex

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What exactly goes on when DELETE /session/username is invoked?

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