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Re: unload event in ie/mozilla/opera


From: Michael Shigorin <mike () osdn org ua>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:37:09 +0300

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:31:28AM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote:
What's worse, some browsers interpret "close the browser" to
trigger the onunload() method, and that's just wrooong.
Not that wrong, the website author could want to clear a
session cookie or similar.

Cookies expire at the end of session by themselves unless the
website (or CMS, for that matter) author cared to set the
expiration explicitly.

http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/#3.3

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