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Executing a CF page when the browser is closed or navigates away from a CF page.

Experts,

I need to excute a CF page or file when the user closes the browser or navigates away from a specific CF page.

For example, if the users are closing the browser when they are on finalPage.cfm and I need to excute verifyDetails.cfm page. I also need to get an attribute from finalPage.cfm to verifyDetails.cfm to check my transaction or run verifyDetails.cfm page.

Are there any CF fucntions to do this and is this possible? If so, please let me know how I can do this?

Thanks on Advance.

gdemaria

Nothing can be done when the browser is closed or someone navigates away from your page.

However, you can use onSessionEnd function in your application.cfc file to run some CF code when the session expires. The session will expire X minutes (usually 20) after the last activity by the user.

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Tpaul_10

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How about something like this.

<script language="JavaScript" event="onbeforeunload()" for="window">
<cfinclude template="act_Cancel.cfm">
</script>

This is working all the time(i mean whenever I move away from this page), but I need to get it worked
only when the window closed.

I need to find out how to use window.close function.

Any suggestions?

Philippe Damerval

Here's a link to a page where they seem to do this. It should apply t you despite the forum being .Net - let me know.
http://forums.asp.net/p/1204326/2226025.aspx

gdemaria

On before load does execute on every page, it's not applicable here.

It seems that forum is being driven by the click of a form button or link, not clicking the browser close button.

I have seen this question again and again on EE, never seen an answer. I think you need to rethink it. If you have clean-up to do, consider onSessionEnd()

Tpaul_10

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Thanks for the reply guys and I am looking in to all these options

gdemaria: Can you please give me an example how to use onSessionEnd()?

Thanks

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Tpaul_10

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Unfortunately, I am still on CF 7 as well as not using CFC at all since it is a old website which was developed USING CF 5.0.