Detect Safari browser close with the iPad 3

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Detect Safari browser close with the iPad 3

Detect browser close with the iPad 3

We have a web site being used on the iPad 3 through Safari.

Our web site is used in a public setting and multiple users login to use it at different times. We have a questions about user account security.

When a signed in user clicks the home button on the iPad , which minimize Safari and returns them to the home screen, can the user be signed out of our web site? We don’t want someone else to come and open the Safari browser and have access to the previous user's account information. Is there a client-side event that is triggered that we can handle so we can log the user out of the site?

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Posted on Aug 6, 2012 9:21 AM

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Answer 1

msuper69

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Aug 6, 2012 10:34 AM in response to RegencyDesigner

Is the iPad shared by everyone at this public setting?

There is currently no way to handle different users on the iPad (or any iOS device).

They are designed as single user devices.

If your company is eligible for an Enterprise account, then you could write an app that could handle clearing user credentials but not in the current "normal" environment.

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Answer 2

msuper69

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Aug 6, 2012 11:15 AM in response to msuper69

Looks like iOS Safari can do what you want.

Check out Private Browsing here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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Answer 3

Aug 6, 2012 1:25 PM in response to msuper69

Thank you for your reponse.

Another way of asking our question:

Is there an event that can be handled from the web browser client side when the home button of the iPad is pushed? Then we could have our code handle it from that event.

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msuper69

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Aug 6, 2012 2:20 PM in response to RegencyDesigner

No.

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