Thanks for your reply Henrik. Problem is I've disabled popups completely. The other thing about cache and stuff .. I've disabled caching now.
That's exactly I was worried about - tying browser closely to the squid. Maybe I should try a timer which queries a mysql database (one used by my squid ext auth) and display one on the client. On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 15:01, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On 24 Apr 2004, Prashant Kumar wrote: > > > Now I want the browser to display a timer. How do I do it please? Since > > this timer has to synchronise with a successful login.. I guess I'll > > have to hack firefox code. > > Or you could use a "start of session" page (see earlier thread) and have > this open a small popup window showing the timer. The timer as such can > easily be syncronised with your backend keeping track of when the login > expires.. > > > Second thing is if a user has forgotten to log out of a say yahoo or > > hotmail account, I don't want the next customer to read the previous > > customers emails etc. > > Make sure the browser is fully restarted between customers, and that the > cookie, history, urlbar and browser cache is cleared. Any of these may > contain sensitive information which you (or your customers) do not want to > be leaked between customers. > > This is mostly a logistics question. How to detect that one person leaves > and another comes to the same station. > > Regards > Henrik
