How to clear basic authentication details in chrome

I'm working on a site that uses basic authentication. Using Chrome I've logged in using the basic auth. I now want to remove the basic authentication details from the browser and try a different login.

How do you clear the current basic authentication details when using Chrome?

Solution 1:

It seems chrome will always show you the login prompt if you include a username in the url e.g.

http://[email protected]

This is not a real full solution, see Mike's comment below.

Solution 2:

You can open an incognito window Ctrl+Shift+n each time you are doing a test. The incognito window will not remember the username and password the last time you entered.

To use this trick, make sure to close all incognito windows. All incognito windows share the same cache. In other words, you cannot open multiple independent incognito windows. If you login in one of them and open another one, those two are related and you will see that the new window remembers the authentication information from the first window.

Solution 3:

all you need to do is to type chrome://restart in the address bar and chrome, with all its apps that are running in background, will restart and the Auth password cache will be cleaned.

Solution 4:

The authentication is cleared when you exit Chrome.

Note however, that by default Chrome is running apps in the background, so it may not really exit even if you close all Chrome windows. You can either change this behavior under advanced setting, or e.g. under Windows, you can completely exit Chrome by using the Chrome icon in the systray. There should be an icon if Chrome is still running, but maybe you'll find it only in the popup with the hidden icons. The context menu of the Chrome icon has an entry to completely exit Chrome, and you can also change the setting for running apps in the background using that menu.

1. Open the Chrome menu
2. Select Settings
3. Scroll to the bottom
4. Click Show advanced settings...
5. Scroll to the bottom
6. Under System uncheck the box labeled:
   Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed