On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Bill Moseley wrote:
> At 03:00 PM 11/20/00 -0600, Trey Connell wrote:
> >Is there anyway to know that a user has disconnected from their session
> >through network failure, power off, or browser closure?
>
> How is that different from just going out for a cup of coffee or opening a
> new browser window and looking at a different site?
>
> >I am logging
> >information about the user to a database when they login to a site, and
> >I need to clean up this data when they leave.
>
> Define "leave" and you will have the answer.
>
> All you can do is set an inactivity timeout, I'd suspect. cron is your
> friend in these cases.
And spec out what you want when a user does happen to come back after you
have expired their session with cron. (they leave their browser open for
awhile, or they bookmark a page).
-Tim
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