Find onUnload Destination URL

[TDonohue]

I am trying to kill a cookie using onUnload if a user leaves the site
or closes the browser window so someone else can't get a person's
session.

Does anyone know if there's a way to check where the window is going
before it gets there?

Many thanks in advance.

-Ted

[kaeli]

Re: Find onUnload Destination URL

In article <586b865f.04011 51042.28387939@ posting.google. com>,
donohule@gwu.ed u enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> I am trying to kill a cookie using onUnload if a user leaves the site
> or closes the browser window so someone else can't get a person's
> session.
>
> Does anyone know if there's a way to check where the window is going
> before it gets there?
>[/color]

No.

Using a session cookie solves the latter problem.
I have yet to see a good solution to the former. Which is why even
banking sites tell you to use their log out button to log out for
security, I'd imagine. If they can't figure out a good solution, I'd
wager there isn't one.

(Note: a GOOD solution. Not one that only works in some browsers for
some people on the third tuesday of every month.)


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[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: Find onUnload Destination URL

donohule@gwu.ed u (TDonohue) writes:
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> I am trying to kill a cookie using onUnload if a user leaves the site
> or closes the browser window so someone else can't get a person's
> session.[/color]

Impossible, if you want to be absolutely certain.
The onunload handler, if any, is called when you leave the page, no
matter how you leave it (except killing the browser so fast it doesn't
get to do anything or turning off the computer). You don't get to know
why it is called.
[color=blue]
> Does anyone know if there's a way to check where the window is going
> before it gets there?[/color]

None. If he follows a link on the page, you can check it, but just
entering something in the address bar is (luckily) not detectable.

/L
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[Michael Winter]

Re: Find onUnload Destination URL

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:33:42 +0100, Lasse Reichstein Nielsen
<lrn@hotpop.com > wrote:
[color=blue]
> The onunload handler, if any, is called when you leave the page, no
> matter how you leave it [...][/color]

Opera doesn't appear to execute onUnload event handlers when you close the
browser or the page's tab. In fact, I've only found it do so when you
navigate to another page.

Mike

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[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: Find onUnload Destination URL

Michael Winter <M.Winter@bluey onder.co.invali d> writes:
[color=blue]
> Opera doesn't appear to execute onUnload event handlers when you close
> the browser or the page's tab. In fact, I've only found it do so when
> you navigate to another page.[/color]

Great :) Just the way I want it.

So, on top of not being certain of being called, it is not even
consistent in when it is called across browsers. Another vote for
forgetting onunload! :)

/L
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'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'