Timeout Alert

Question

I am running a timer on the client via javascript setTimeout. I need to use the confirm() function to get information from the user. The problem with this is that the confirm loop is stopping the event loop and my time. I was able to do an alert box via a popup to replace the alert, but I don't know how to take the input from my confirm box without continuing the processes after the popup first. So ... my situation is "Are you sure you want to delete?" and I need to keep my timer running. Any suggetions?

Answer 1

Do you really have to alert the user that the session is about to terminate? I mean, because coming up with a reasonably working solution is pretty hard (and ugly). You would have to use some kind of javascript kludge to take care of the timing.
But then it comes to the question about how to detect the actual inactivity. Although this maybe possible to implement with js, it surely will be pain (and I don't even want to know how). Then again the only wayt to prevent session from expiring would be making a request to the server (for example reloading the page). This is the easy part. But what if the user has disabled the javascript? What then?
For me this kind of approach to this problem seems quite an overkill. Many web applications just inform the user at the login page that the session will be terminated after certain amount of inactivity. I would suggest that you do the same unless you want to rip your a** apart by hacking some sort of javascript solution :-)