how to end session or logout a user on browser close MVC ASP .NET

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I have designed a MVC Form and would like to end the session when user closes the browser and if re-open the browser, then has to log in again!

I don't know if I have to end session or clear cookies and if so, how should i do it. Will you help me to find my answer...

Thank you!

There is no fool proof way to determine if someone closed a browser or not. Also, logins are handled via cookie not session state. Here is an example thread on a similar subject - stackoverflow.com/questions/1783302/… — Tommy
– Tommy, Commented Nov 6, 2013 at 6:33
@Tommy thank you for your answer, how and where should i clear the cookie? — SamR
– SamR, Commented Nov 6, 2013 at 6:45

Deantwo · Accepted Answer · 2019-05-15 17:51:23Z

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You can use:

function del_cookie(name) {
    document.cookie = name + '=; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-70 00:00:01 GMT;';
}

<body onload="SetCookie()" onunload="del_cookie()">

source here

try modify it yourself

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answered Nov 6, 2013 at 9:36

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SamR Over a year ago

Thank you very much, but This is not webform and I'm using MVC! where should I put the body onload on MVC?

Vinh Over a year ago

Sorry for answering you late. There is javascript, you can put in in your web page aspx.

<html> <script> function del_cookie(name) { document.cookie = name + '=; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-70 00:00:01 GMT;'; } </script> <body onload="SetCookie()" onunload="del_cookie()"> //your content// </body> </html>

Rufix Over a year ago

It's really cool solution, but also works on tab close. So if you are working on multiple tabs it will terminate session for all of them.

Deantwo Over a year ago

Link is broken. Found it on WaybackMachine, here: web.archive.org/web/20130424221916/http://javascript.about.com/…

Tommy · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-07 15:52:59Z

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If you are using In-Proc Session Mode, in that case you can get Session Timeout Event in the global.asax file. So if you are creating Cookies and other user specific stubs , you can clean those thing using this event.

In Global.asax.cs

    protected void Session_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   //Clean-up Code
}

In case of Out-Proc Mode you will never get Session timeout event.

As Tommy said that there is no fool proof way to determine if someone closed a browser, But you can do it by Jquery. You need to ping your server at specific time intervals. So when you stop getting anything from the client after specific time duration , you can perform cleaning operation (Same like session timeout)

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Saurabh Mahajan · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-06 10:44:04Z

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You can try . On browser close or page onload event delete the cookies from javascript or on browser close event (or page unload event) make a call on server and CLear the session on server.

answered Nov 6, 2013 at 10:44

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