Controlling custom response pages for pkmslogout

The pkmslogout command allows the default HTML response page (such as logout.html) to be replaced by a custom response page.

The custom response page is specified through a query string that is appended to the pkmslogout URL. For example:

https://www.example.com/pkmslogout?filename=custom_logout_file

where custom_logout_file is the file name of the custom logout response page. This file must be located in the same management/lang directory containing the default HTML response forms (such as logout.html) in the LMI.

The custom response page feature allows, for example, multiple logout response pages when the network architecture requires different exit screens for users logging out of distinctly different back-end systems.

You can control whether or not the appended query string is allowed to override the default response page through the use-filename-for-pkmslogout stanza entry in the [acnt-mgt] stanza of the WebSEAL configuration file.

A no value (default) disables the use of the query string. Any query string in a pkmslogout URL that specifies a custom response page is ignored. Only the default response page is used upon logout.

A yes value enables the use of the query string. If a query string in a pkmslogout URL specifies a custom response page, that custom page is used instead of the default page. For example:

[acnt-mgt]
use-filename-for-pkmslogout = yes

See also Customized responses for old session cookies.

Parent topic: Logout and password change operations