This is a bizarre one. We have a Laravel website, and on said site we have a timer per user, where they get 15 minutes of being inactive before being booted.
We do this through a timer that sits on the page in a react component, it works as we want it to, but now we have a new issue: If a user is logged in and shut the lid of their laptop the website should boot them. Banks do this, Schools and Universities do this, Government sites also do this. So it is possible, just not sure how.
We do use web sockets, using laravel-websockets library and Echo. What I would like to see happen is:
- Once you close your laptop boot you to the login screen. So the next time you open the laptop and login, and see the browser you are on the login screen. It doesn't have to happen that quickly, but we need a way to send something to the front end basically telling them to refresh the page, once the session is killed, we set the session lifetime on laravel of 15 minutes.
Some people have suggested in other similar questions:
- to create a custom web-socket handler
- To compare the session cookie (in the browser) with the user cookie on the back end.
- To have a timer running on the front end (we do, it just stops when you close the laptop lid)
The most popular one seems to be using web-sockets, listening for the user to disconnect and then boot them, which is fine and all, but then how do you send a request to a browser thats suspended to then boot them?
I have found requestIdleCallback() But again, I don't think this is what I want if I already have a heartbeat timer on the site. It also doesn't work in all browsers.
I am very lost here on how to accomplish this, the example I can give is:
Log in to your bank, put your computer to sleep, wait 15-20 minutes, awaken the computer, log in and see your bank now has you on the login screen. That's what I want. But I don't know how to accomplish that.
You cant send events to a "sleeping" browser from the back end, and while yes this would have to be a back end solution, how do you update the front end then, so that they are on the logout screen when they reawaken the laptop or computer?