How do I kill a session when closing a tab without logging off?

on close show a message and force user to click logout!

or like this

$(window).unload(function() {
    var answer=confirm("Are you sure you want to leave?");
if(answer){
    //ajax call here -- call your logout.aspx
    }
});


or just call logout...

$(window).unload(function() {
    //ajax call here -- call your logout.aspx
    }
});

for IE
try
setting --> Advanced --> under Browsing section, uncheck "reuse windows for launching shortcut" ,

under Security section "donot save encrypted pages to disk" check

ajeab, this is webapp and author wants to control this...
not trying to force all users do some changes to their browsers, which is not possible...

This code works when closing the browser window, but doesn't work on closing just the tab.

Any solutions for closing the tab with the browser window staying open?

+1 Gary

Apart from that it's a bad idea anyway - what if I open a link in a new tab and close the old tab or the new one - then you kill my session and I lose everything.

sometimes i duplicate a page and close one randomly later :) if you implement such thing, i will get really mad...

just did a test with my bank site...

logged in, duplicated page (my accounts), closed randomly one of them... no issues... they work fine...

Then i copied url and closed all bank sites (tabs) and opened a new tab, and pasted the url

voila! page is there!...

summary: put a warning on your page, saying

BEWARE!!! Just do not close the site! use LOGOUT! or else your data may be stolen (public computers)

What are you trying to protect against? Someone establishes a session, I guess https is used. If he closes the browser, the session is gone. If he closes only the tab, it is not gone, that's it.
So you fear that he closes the tab and leaves his computer unattended and unlocked afterwards? He should lock his computer.

Thanks for the Beware comment, already working down that path.

Not sure I get the "it's a bad idea"

I'm trying to protect PHI data.  Can't control if the end user locks his/her computer, especially on a public computer.

even the big banks do not do such thing, so why worry? educate your users...
also, keep your session timeout short (5 min for example) instead of default (15-20 min)

The best thing you can do is adopt a 10 minute session (Hain says 5 minutes, I think that is too short - I know I could spend 10 minutes looking through a statement)
And here is the biggie no "Remember me".
If people are stupid enough to use a public computer and not do a complete log out well you can't fix stupid.

If someone want's to do anything other than look at things, say change the password then you ask them to enter the password again - this can eliminate the kind of hacking I think you are trying to prevent.  It's an hassle but is quite widely implemented where you are transferring money, changing the password etc to prevent any possibility of someone else using the account.

"I'm trying to protect PHI data.  Can't control if the end user locks his/her computer, especially on a public computer" - and you are sure this type of data may even be viewed on public computers? No matter how the login/logout is managed, the data is already at risk when you use an untrusted machine to view it.
You should limit the ability of viewing the data to managed computers only that have a lockscreen policy enforced. If you make it viewable from anywhere, you are at fault already. The login info could get compromised easily, screenshots could be taken, anything.

I'm in similar situation as your.  my EHR using IE only and lot of setting has to be done.  that is why I'm now evaluate visual app (citrix xenapp, 2x, vmview)  this way you will be sure that IE session do not remain on remote computer. but it's not cheap.  you will need at minimum RDS server,  RDS client license, and couple of VMs for gateway.

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28583613/How-do-I-kill-a-session-when-closing-a-tab-without-logging-off.html?anchorAnswerId=40510685#a40510685 is considerable advice for sure and should be honored.