how to detect Browser close event.

[sm mehta]

Hi,

I have a web Application that must be licensed. When Customer buys 2
licensees for my application they can only have 2 copies open at a time.
What I am doing right now is, I am storing No. Of License in the SQL
Table, and on each connection i would reduce 1 license from the DB. My
problem is when user closes IE Browser, I want to capture this event and
return the license to the DB. How do I know when user closed the
browser? I have more than one page in my application so from any page if
they close browser I should capture that event. I also have Automatic
refresh on couple of pages where it redraws pages from the DB every 5
mins. I should not clear the license upon refresh. I would really
appreciate your help.

Thanks
SM.

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[David]

There's an event in your global.ascx that triggers when a
session ends. You might want to try updating your DB here.

Sub Session_End(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
EventArgs)
' Fires when the session ends
End Sub

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[Natty Gur]

In addition to David replay,

pay attention that the default session ending is 20 minutes after the
user last request to the server, you can change it in the web.config.

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[bruce barker]

there is no way to reliably catch this event on the server. as the browser
doesn't maintain a connection to your server, you can only guess at number
of concurrent users.

you will need to implement a license checkout scheme. every page request
need to check out a license, that has a short timeout. if none availiable
then report error. on postback the page send the license, if its still vaild
or an additional one is available, the post succeeds, otherwise report out
of license error. the postback will also release the license. if the
postback renders a new page, a new checkout is done.

-- bruce (sqlwork)

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[Steve C. Orr, MCSD]

You may be able to take advantage of the client side OnClose event.
Here's more info:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_window_ref56.html

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD
http://Steve.Orr.net

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