Server side actions on closing the browser window

[Santel]

Hi,

I would like to do some server side actions while closing the browser
window. I tried with Page_Unload event, but it triggers while loading
the page itself. Anyone please tell me is there any event that triggers
on closing the page?

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

No, there is no. You can try handling client-side window.onunload event to
pass something to the server.

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer & Consultant
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin
http://usableasp.net

 

[Karl Seguin]

You pretty much need to hook into a javascript event (like onbeforeunload),
and fire some server side code - either be poping up a window or doing some
ajax.

Karl

 

[Mark Rae]

I would like to do some server side actions while closing the browser
window. I tried with Page_Unload event, but it triggers while loading
the page itself. Anyone please tell me is there any event that triggers
on closing the page?

As Eliyahu says, you can (try to) use the window.unload event, but the
problem here is that not all browsers handle this event in the same way, and
it will (sometimes) fire if the user clicks the Refresh button, which will
probably cause a lot more problems for you...

What are you trying to achieve with this...?

 

[Mark Rae]

You pretty much need to hook into a javascript event (like
onbeforeunload),

The problem here is that onbeforeunload is not (currently) standard w3c, and
is not supported in all browsers:
http://forums.asp.net/thread/1362515.aspx

 

[Laurent Bugnion [MVP]]

Hi Mark,

As Eliyahu says, you can (try to) use the window.unload event, but the
problem here is that not all browsers handle this event in the same way, and
it will (sometimes) fire if the user clicks the Refresh button, which will
probably cause a lot more problems for you...

Out of curiosity, in your experience, which browsers do not fire
window.unload when the page is refreshed?

Greetings,
Laurent

 

[Mark Rae]

Out of curiosity, in your experience, which browsers do not fire
window.unload when the page is refreshed?

Safari certainly didn't, though I haven't checked in the latest version...

 

[Laurent Bugnion [MVP]]

Hi,

Safari certainly didn't, though I haven't checked in the latest version...

Interesting. Thanks! That confirms what I thought, that this event is
not reliable.

Greetings,
Laurent