CODEWITHSUNDEEP
django
deef
deef

Reputation: 4760

Logout user when they leave site

I want to be able to automatically log users out when they leave my Django site. Not just when they close the browser, but whenever they navigate away to a different site. Is this possible?

I'm displaying sensitive data to the user, and if they were to go to a new URL, and then hit the back button, I don't want the sensitive data displayed. I want them to be forced to log back in.

Is this possible? Or is this something I would have to do on the front end?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2933

Answers (1)

mishbah
mishbah

Reputation: 5597

Check out this answer on how to detect when a visitor moves away from the page.

Documentation: Page Visibility API

Logout user via Ajax:

from django.views.generic import View
from django.http import JsonResponse
from django.contrib.auth import logout


class LogoutView(View):
"""
The logout view class. This will log the user out and invalidate the session.
"""

    def post(self, *args, **kwargs):
        logout(self.request)
        return JsonResponse({'success': True}, **kwargs)

If you only want to 'logout' user if they leave the page, try hooking into onbeforeunload event.

$(window).unload(function () {
    /* login for ajax call goes here */
});

WindowEventHandlers.onbeforeunload

Upvotes: 1

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