How about coverting that Page into a JSP page and use session itself to
track your web user activities. You can keep a String Object in session and
in that String Object you can keep some Id about the last page visited.
Uday Bhosle
Manager Products division
Port2web Inc.
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> API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Raj
> Patel
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 3:35 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Session handling in servlets
>
>
> I was wondering if anybody could help me with session
> handling in a Java
> Servlet. Here's the problem that I'm having:
>
> The application that I'm working requires me to be notified
> when a user
> either a) jumps to another webpage or b) closes the browser
> window. In
> order to do that, I'm using the JavaScript onUnload()
> function. When a
> user points his/her browser in another direction, the
> onUnload() tag causes
> a new browser window to open up which is pointed to my
> servlet. Now, I
> need access to the session that was created previous to the
> user jumping
> off my servlet. However, when I try to call getSession(false) it is
> returning null back to me. Is there any way to keep the
> session alive?
>
> On a side note, is there any way in Java Servlet programming
> to determine
> whether or not the user is still on your page? I would like
> to avoid using
> the onUnload() JavaScript function if possible.
>
>
> Please help,
> Raj
>
>
> ----------------------------------
> Raj Patel - Software Engineer, Web Technology Group
> Sea Change Corporation, 6695 Millcreek Drive, #1,
> Mississauga, Ont, CANADA,
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