Adding an Auto-Logout Feature - Part 1

By: Tom Muck on Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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If you have a web application that has a login feature, chances are you also have a logout function. What happens when the user keeps the browser open and doesn't log out? Many times he will go back to the page and attempt to click on something, only to find out that he has to login again.

This article will show a JavaScript function that you can put on the page that will automatically log out the user after a specific length of time, so that when he returns to the browser he will already be logged out. Because this is a JavaScript function, it will work with any server-side language.

The Adding an Auto-Logout Feature Series:
Adding an Auto-Logout Feature - Part 1
Adding an Auto-Logout Feature - Part 2

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