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google-app-enginelogout
Tr3y
Tr3y

Reputation: 191

detect and perform action when user logs out of GAE app

I need my (python) google app to perform an action (submit a form) if the user logs out. This is simple enough to do if they use the logout links in my app, but if they log out from a gmail page or something, I don't know how to handle it.

Another possible source of error would be if the user closed the browser window, shut down their computer, etc. resulting in a log-off. Is this scenario is equivalent to what I describe in the previous paragraph, or are they different somehow?

To expand this question since it seems the above is not at all trivial: if I set a cleanup function on a timeout, will the python session in fact continue to run in the GAE cloud after the cookie expires, and actually execute the timeout function?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 206

Answers (1)

lucemia
lucemia

Reputation: 6627

Close browser window and shut down computer result log out because of session expired (cookie). It is slightly different from user click log out manually. In both case, I don't think GAE can track these behaviors.

The best thing that I can think about is to develop a browser extension. Or just don't design the service based on detecting user's log out.

Upvotes: 2

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