How to delete/expire the FedAuth Cookie on closing the application

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I am implementing Single Sign-on using ADFS for an ASP.NET application. A federation cookie is created every time the user logs-in to the application. When the user closes the application, the federation cookie does not expire until the user closes the browser. The federation cookie automatically expires on closing all the browser windows.

I want to delete the federation cookie on clicking the Browser's close(X) button while the other browser windows are still open. The name of the federation cookie varies every time so I cannot delete the cookie based on the cookie name.

How can I remove or expire the federation cookie on closing the browser?

Posted 2-Sep-14 21:25pm

MikeRox89

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Nathan Minier 3-Sep-14 13:06pm

Two questions: do you mean tab when you say browser and are you using any JavaScript frameworks?

MikeRox89 3-Sep-14 13:13pm

Yes, when I close the tab and not the whole browser, the fedauth cookie is not removed.

I am looking for any possible way to solve this. I have tried to change the web.config file 'cookiehandler' but that did not work.

Nathan Minier 3-Sep-14 13:53pm

I assumed that was the case, default behavior is for cookies to persist until the browser itself is closed. What you'll need to do is write a JavaScript that will delete the cookies, hence my question about if you're using a framework or not.

MikeRox89 3-Sep-14 14:00pm

Yes.. The code is developed in asp.net using .net framework 4.0. I tried to use a javascript function but was confused since the cookie name is dynamic.

Could I possibly delete the cookies on the Tab close(x) button.

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Nathan Minier · Answer 1 · 2014-09-03T08:20:00

This should wipe out all cookies from your domain on closing.

JavaScript

window.onbeforeunload = function(){

    var cookies = document.cookie.split(";");

    for (var i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
    	var cookie = cookies[i];
    	var eqPos = cookie.indexOf("=");
    	var name = eqPos > -1 ? cookie.substr(0, eqPos) : cookie;
    	document.cookie = name + "=;expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT";
    }
}

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179355/clearing-all-cookies-with-javascript[^]

EDIT: Just wrap that in a

HTML

<script type="text/javascript"></script>

tag anywhere on the page.