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[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

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

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.

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.

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

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

 

[Michael Winter]

The onunload handler, if any, is called when you leave the page, no
matter how you leave it [...]

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

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

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.

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