bugtraq - Re: unload event in ie/mozilla/opera

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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:37:09 +0300
From: Michael Shigorin <mike@...n.org.ua>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Cc: Niels Bakker <niels-bugtraq@...ker.net>
Subject: Re: unload event in ie/mozilla/opera

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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