Logout from an "https client authentication (public key certificate)"

Question

Hi ,
I am using an https client authentication (public key certificate) to login to my ADF faces website
How can I logout form the application? It seems the session.invalidate() is not working because my login information is still displayed after running the logout method (below)
Note that this logout method was working well with the Form-Based Authentication.
Thank you
Jamil
public String logout() {
ExternalContext ectx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext();
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)ectx.getRequest();
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse)ectx.getResponse();
HttpSession session = (HttpSession)ectx.getSession(false);
session.invalidate();
String temp = request.getContextPath() + "/adfAuthentication?logout=true&end_url=/faces/logout";
try {
ectx.redirect(temp);
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().responseComplete();
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println("Exception in logout()");
return null;
}

Answer 1

Can you try with the null chk.. as this piece of code is working fine for us
public void logout(ActionEvent evt) {> FacesContext fc = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
> HttpSession session =
> (HttpSession)fc.getExternalContext().getSession(false);
> HttpServletRequest request =
> (HttpServletRequest)fc.getExternalContext().getRequest();
> HttpServletResponse response =
> (HttpServletResponse)fc.getExternalContext().getResponse();
> try {
> if (session != null) {
> session.invalidate();
> }
> fc.getExternalContext().redirect(request.getContextPath() +
> "/faces/index");
> } catch (Exception exp) {
> try {
> fc.getExternalContext().redirect("/faces/Error");
> } catch (Exception ex) {
}> }
> }