"https://www.google.com/accounts/Logout" clears all the google cookies in browser

Question

I am trying to use Google as OpenID.
Users can successfully login to my site using their Google email.
Problem: They can't sign out successfully from it.

When user clicks sign out button in my website, i can only clear the cookies issued by my site itself but not the cookies issued under Google.
I have googled as well as read many article in stackoverflow. The solution i found is that i can't delete Google cookies myself. In order to delete that cookie i have to redirect my Page to https://www.google.com/accounts/Logout which cleans the Cookies issued by Google in my browser.

Another Problem begins: That url clears all the google cookies in the browser.If the user is login in other sites using Google as OpenID or even gmail at the same time in the same browser, their cookies also get deleted while logging out of my site.
Is there solution to it?

For Demo Try following steps in your own brower:
1- Login Gmail with your own authentication
2. then Click on https://www.google.com/accounts/Logout.
What will happen is your gmail account will be logout automatically.

I still don't get it. Are you trying to log them out of your site? Are you trying to log them out of Google? Or what? — David Schwartz, May 18 '12 at 10:29
Sorry but again edited. This time hope you will get the thing i want to ask. — mesimplybj, May 18 '12 at 11:21
Nope, still don't get it. You want to log them out of your site, right? So why are you even trying to log them out of their Google account? If you're trying to log them out of their Google account, why are you complaining that it logs them out of their Google account? — David Schwartz, May 18 '12 at 11:29
@simplybj this link exactly solves ur problem http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4202161/google-account-logout-and-redirect — Paras, May 18 '12 at 11:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 22 '15 at 12:44

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As far as what I understand from your post, you want to log your users out of Google. For which you can use https://www.google.com/accounts/Logout without a problem.

You can use the following function to do it for you:

var logout = function()
{
    document.location.href = "https://www.google.com/accounts/Logout?continue=https://appengine.google.com/_ah/logout?continue=http://stackoverflow.com";
}

where you should replace http://stackoverflow.com with your home page.

This should help you get your job done.

edited Jul 22 '15 at 12:44

Sri Harsha Chilakapati

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answered Jul 22 '15 at 12:20

What's up with the first "?continue=" there? – Jay Sep 16 '21 at 22:08
how to avoid redirect notice page, i want to redirect my website – Manohar Pamishetty Jan 23 '23 at 06:56

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 25 '13 at 17:08

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Here is a sign-out URL from all Google account, which is working fine for me:

https://accounts.google.com/Logout?continue=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.com%2FServiceLogin%3Fsacu%3D1&il=true&zx=icxpgruz0yao

Hope it will help you.

edited Nov 25 '13 at 17:08

GraphicsMuncher

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answered Nov 25 '13 at 16:40

Sergey Sologub

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He is looking for a way to log out of his site *without* logging out of all Google accounts. – Neal Gokli Apr 25 '17 at 00:52

"https://www.google.com/accounts/Logout" clears all the google cookies in browser

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