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    Anyone figured out this?

    Easy to determine when someone logs into the website but haven't figured out to know when they leave.

    Anyone come up with a way to find out?

    Using the Touchpad plugin for visitors access.

    #2
    Nothing is automatically sent to the server when the client browser closes or navigates away from your page. Most web apps use a timeout (typically twenty minutes) to close down a session.

    It is possible, in client-side Javascript, to subscribe to a window or document OnClose (or similar) event, and send something to the server-side app when that happens, but it takes fairly sophisticated programming.

    If you have well-behaved users, a Logout button can do the job. My bank enforces well-behavedness by locking you out for a period of time if you close the window without using the Logout button.

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      #3
      Well it is hard enough to get visitors to use the correct ID & PW even when I put a large flashing STOP & READ sign on the first page telling them what to enter. Still wished that MS would have made that function OPTIONAL. Made it easy to include in on the link. I have had 1-2 callers that have tried to get in and still couldn't after over 15 tries. Talk about computer ignorant.

      No chance to get them to use a logout button. Much easier to just X out.
      I'm guilty of that as well.

      This message board has a logout function but if you use it, it loses the last messages read so the ability to read only New Posts doesn't work. At least for me it doesn't. If I just X out, next time I can get all messages since the last login. Don't have to go searching everything.

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        #4
        Maybe a script to check for unique ID (IP) on page entry and page exit?

        When you say "website", are you refering to an web host or your local web server? My web host provide tools to "alert" the web owner of various conditions, like user entry and exit to the site.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Kyham
          Still wished that MS would have made that function OPTIONAL. Made it easy to include in on the link. I have had 1-2 callers that have tried to get in and still couldn't after over 15 tries. Talk about computer ignorant.
          Don,
          You can add this back with a really simple registry hac and your back in business.

          Put this in a .reg file and run it. It will allow the username/password combination again.

          --Start here
          Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

          [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_ DISABLE]
          "iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000
          "explorer.exe"=dword:00000000
          -- Stop Here
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            #6
            That'll work great for Don... lol .. what about the folks that want to enter that don't know about the reg hack?
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              #7
              Originally posted by Skibum
              That'll work great for Don... lol .. what about the folks that want to enter that don't know about the reg hack?
              I thought it was used on the target machine (Dons)? Is it not?
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                #8
                I seem to remember something about that on this board when MS first made the change that the hack needed to be on the client system. That is why I didn't try it.

                As for a website or home system, it is the same for me. I am hosting my own web site except for the very first page. Then everything is here and running with the HS server and Touchpad plugin.

                The first page is somewhere in the world, don't know where but the link feeds everything else back to my HS machine so everything has to be done here.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Kyham
                  I seem to remember something about that on this board when MS first made the change that the hack needed to be on the client system. That is why I didn't try it.

                  As for a website or home system, it is the same for me. I am hosting my own web site except for the very first page. Then everything is here and running with the HS server and Touchpad plugin.

                  The first page is somewhere in the world, don't know where but the link feeds everything else back to my HS machine so everything has to be done here.
                  Don you could run the hack and we could try it as a quick test.
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                    #10
                    Coupla comments:

                    That registry thing applies to client-side IE, it has nothing to do with the server.

                    Shawn - for reasons I gave above, it's not possible to detect page "exits" (unless to another page on the same site) without complex programming in the page itself.

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                      #11
                      Unfortunatly that is the answer I thought I was going to get.

                      Not that it is a requirement, it just would be nice to have a way to see how long users are on the system.

                      Thanks for the comments and help. It is appreciated.

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                        #12
                        I'm not sure that "on your system" is accurate in a web based setup. Connections between clients and servers aren't generally maintained after a page is downloaded. Probably the best you can do is try to determine if your web page is still loaded in the client brouser. As previously mentioned you might be able to embed some java script that will load another page like the porn sites do (but hidden) that are actuated when you try to go to another page or site to signal a person is going to a new page. You might be able to have an embeded hidden meta refresh page that would refresh something like once a minute while the person has the main page loaded in their brouser that could have a counter. Weather a person is actually activly viewing the page or not would always be a question.
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                          #13
                          Thanks for the info but it sounds like alot of effort to get something that is not really necessare but would be nice to have.


                          Think I am just going to forget about it.


                          Thanks to everyone for their comments.

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