Sun Java System Portal Server 7 Developer's Guide

Action logout

The logout action ends the user session. When the DesktopServlet receives a request where the action is logout, to perform the logout action, it takes the following parameters:

DesktopServletURL/dt?action=logout

When the DesktopServlet receives a request for the logout action, it redirects the browser to a URL defined by the Access Manager software iplanet-am-platform-logout-url attribute in the Platform service. By default, this attribute has the value /amserver/logout. But, If this is set to something that does not terminate the user’s session, such as a static HTML page, then /portal/dt?action=logout will not terminate the user session.