Logout button about exportify HOT 2 CLOSED

Done, but it's goofy. The only way to log out seems to be to open the logout url on spotify's website, so clicking the logout button annoyingly opens a new tab. The alternative is to always face the user with a confirmation page every time they go through authentication with Spotify, which provides a "Not You?" link, but that's even more annoying.

I'd like to close the new tab automatically pretty immediately, but I haven't found a way to do it programmatically without interrupting the logout process.

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Okay, I've worked it out. The issue is that when you make a popup window (or open a new tab) you can't control whether it has focus or not from the script. That's controlled by browser settings and whether the user was ctrl+clicking a link and whatnot. And once a different window has focus, the script from the previous window stops running and can't get focus back. This is to keep webpages from stealing back focus randomly and running in the background, which would be a nightmare for users. (Webpages can still throw alert()s to steal focus, but the user has to click "okay" before anything can advance.) So all my setTimeout() calls to .close() the new window weren't getting executed at all.

Solution: Load the page not in a new window but in an iframe, so the current script maintains control. Make the iframe invisible, because Spotify's homepage isn't interesting and can't be displayed through the frame anyway due to some security thing. Wait a second for the call to go through, then redirect to the homepage. User never has to leave the current tab and doesn't see the mess.

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