Re: FN-FORUM:

date posted 30th May 2006 13:29

I think it is something like that aswell which was why I put in a settimeout
to stall it. I was surprised when that didn't work.


Pam

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>
>> Calling it from OnBeforeUnload works for IE but
>> that doesn't exist for FireFox unfortunately and
>> calling it from onUnload calls the javascript ok
>> but the HTTP request doesn't do anything. I am
>> going to try a few other things tonight to see if
>> they work.
>
> I think that the FireFox call via JavaScript onUnload isn't working
> because,
> in Firefox, the HTTP session has ended when the HTTP request gets called
> from the XML request. In IE, the OnBeforeUnload keeps the HTTP session
> open
> to allow the XML request to complete before closing the pipe.
>
> Maybe you need to write your own OnBeforeUnload version of this so that,
> for
> example, onUnload causes a pop-up to open, complete the XML HTTP request
> from the pop-up, and then auto-closes the pop-up on completion.
>
> HTH
>
> Edward
>
>
>
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