Invalidate session when browser is closed

hi

i would like to invalidate the session when the browser/tab is closed by the user.

i thought that maybe using ajax will make it but i don't know how.

how can i do it?

You'll need to send an AJAX request to the server using the onunload event of the body. Look on google to find a good tutorial on AJAX like this or this or this...

That probably wouldn't work if the browser crashes, but I'm not sure. You could also send a periodic request from every page (like once a minute or something) and if that "keepalive" request doesn't come in the session is invalidated.

how do i send a periodic request from every page?

Start a periodic timer, and when it fires, make an ajax request to find out if the session has expired.

The app would need to keep track of sessions to make sure each session gets its respective periodic request.

odelya yomtov wrote:
i would like to invalidate the session when the browser/tab is closed by the user.

Unfortunately,there is no way for a server to detect the event.