I finally figured out the answer to this. The following web page
demonstrates how you can tell in javascript if a page is new or
old.
<html>
<body>
<h1>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
if (window.name == "foobar") {
document.writeln("old window");
}
else {
window.name = "foobar";
document.writeln("new window");
}
</script>
</font></b>
<noscript>
</noscript>
<h1>
</body>
</html>
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 05:59:59PM -0700, Dror Matalon wrote:
>
> Assume that you have page foo.html in windows 1 that has a link to
> bar.html in it. The question is, how do you tell the difference betwenn
> the user clicking on the link and going to bar.html and the user right
> clicking on the link and choosing "open link in new window" (there's
> different ways of doing this in different browsers). In the first case
> you have bar.html in window 1, in the second you have bar.html in window
> 2. How would the javascript know to do different things in the different
> windows?
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 05:24:36PM -0400, Jayson Falkner wrote:
> > Use JavaScript to encode your URLs with the window name, or some other
> > unique ID.
> >
> > For instance:
> >
> > http://www.foo.com?pageid=page1
> >
> > Then mine the information out on the server-side accordingly. Given your
> > specific use, it may be possible to encode the links on the server-side
> > to achieve the same goal.
> >
> > Another much more simple solution would be to ask a user to configure
> > the web browser so that it does not share session cookies between
> > different windows. Most every browser allows this. Assuming you used it,
> > the different windows should reliably have separate sessions.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jayson Falkner
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Dror Matalon wrote:
> > >Hi folks,
> > >
> > >
> > >As part of the zapatec platform we need to be able to tell if two
> > >requests come from the same window, or they come from different windows.
> > >For instance a developer might be building the application in one window
> > >and testing it in a second one, and we want to be able to tell which
> > >windows is which.
> > >
> > >AFAIK A servlet has no good way to tell if two requests are done from
> > >the same browser window or from two different windows, as long as both
> > >windows are part of the same session. Looks to me like you need some
> > >client side help, probably javascript, to do that. Looks to me like the
> > >window name would be a good way to tell windows apart, but I'd be
> > >interested in hearing how others folks handle this issue.
> > >
> > >I'd appreciate any hints or URLs.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Dror
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >Dror Matalon
> > >Zapatec Inc
> > >1700 MLK Way
> > >Berkeley, CA 94709
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