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Re: Expire session on browser close or back button [message #172873 is a reply to message #172872]

Tue, 08 March 2011 11:51

bill
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On 3/8/2011 5:31 AM, mohan wrote:
> On Mar 7, 5:55 pm, Michael Fesser<neti...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> .oO(mohan)
>>
>>> I am developing one website in which I have the following requirements
>>> which are pretty much similar to banking website behavior:
>>> - Expire session when browser is closed
>>
>> Happens automatically with session cookies.
>>
>>> - Expire session when user clicks on back button of browser
>>
>> Not possible. What really happens when moving back one page is left to
>> the browser. It may request the previous page again or simply serve it
>> from its cache. Nothing wrong with that.
>>
>> Some applications may have a problem with that, especially if there's
>> heavy use of AJAX and the like. But that's a problem in the application,
>> not in the browser's behaviour.
>>
>>> - Do not show the page if user directly copy pastes the URL to
>>> navigate to a page
>>
>> Why not? The browser has to send a request to the server, so the user
>> can always see the URL and may open it directly in another tab for
>> example. And from the server's POV it doesn't make a difference whether
>> the user followed a link or directly copied the URL into the browser's
>> address bar. In the first case there might be a referrer header, but you
>> can't safely rely on that.
>>
>> Maybe you can explain in some more detail why you need alle the above
>> (except for the first issue, which is nothing special).
>>
>> Micha
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the inputs. We are developing a site that has some payment
> related functionalities. Our client wanted to have the above 3
> mentioned session related handling exactly the way it is done in
> banking websites. So we are looking for options on implementing the
> same.

Although it may not be reliable, you can check the referrer to
see where the customer came from or you can put time references
into the E_SESSION array.
Or you can deconstruct the banking websites and tell us all how
they do it.

bill

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		Expire session on browser close or back button By: mohan on Mon, 07 March 2011 09:45
		Re: Expire session on browser close or back button By: Erwin Moller on Mon, 07 March 2011 10:11
		Re: Expire session on browser close or back button By: Michael Fesser on Mon, 07 March 2011 12:55
		Re: Expire session on browser close or back button By: Captain Paralytic on Mon, 07 March 2011 13:23
		Re: Expire session on browser close or back button By: mohan on Tue, 08 March 2011 10:31
		Re: Expire session on browser close or back button By: bill on Tue, 08 March 2011 11:51
		Re: Expire session on browser close or back button By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Tue, 08 March 2011 12:11
		Re: Expire session on browser close or back button By: Denis McMahon on Tue, 08 March 2011 17:51
		Re: Expire session on browser close or back button By: D. Stussy on Tue, 08 March 2011 20:14

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