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Re: Expire session on browser close or back button [message #172872 is a reply to message #172870]

Tue, 08 March 2011 10:31

mohan
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Registered: March 2011

Karma:

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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.

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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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