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manjy
manjy

Reputation: 109

How to forcefully log out a user when user closes tab or browser on website built on django2.0

I used built-in login logout functionality by Django using Django authentication, this is the following url pattern for logging in urls.py:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
from . import views


urlpatterns = [
    path('',views.home),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('users/', include('users.urls')),
    path('users/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
    path('dashboard/', include('dashboard.urls')),

]

And i added following in my setting.py settings.py:

LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'dashboard:home'
LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = 'dashboard:home'

Now how do I check whether user closed his browser and he should be logged out? PS:I made my own logging in and sign-up HTML pages and made my own customuser derived from AbstractUser

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7493

Answers (3)

Tejinder Singh
Tejinder Singh

Reputation: 89

To logout the session whenever you close the browser

you need to input the following lines in your setting.py

auto logout when user close the browser

SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE = True
SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST = True

Upvotes: 1

solarissmoke
solarissmoke

Reputation: 31404

Just set the SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE setting to true, so that Django's session cookies are only valid for the length of the browser session.

If SESSION_EXPIRE_AT_BROWSER_CLOSE is set to True, Django will use browser-length cookies – cookies that expire as soon as the user closes their browser. Use this if you want people to have to log in every time they open a browser.

Upvotes: 6

Ojas Kale
Ojas Kale

Reputation: 2159

You can listen for the window or tab close event like this. This approach needs jQuery and JavaScript.

$(document).ready(function(){         
    $(window).on("beforeunload", function(e) {
        $.ajax({
                url: logout_url,
                method: 'GET',
            })
    });
});

Upvotes: 3

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