Trigger action in parent window when child window closes - is it possible?

Hi all

I'm not very experienced with javascript, so please excuse my ignorance.

I want to do something very specific, namely:

Put a link on my page that will open an external site (over which I have no control) in a pop-up window. When the user closes the pop-up, I want my original page to redirect to another page.

The difficulty I'm having is that I can't add any code to the page in the pop-up as it's not my site.

Make sense?

Anyone have any dashed clever solutions?

Thanks
Tom

AFAIK it is not possible to detect whether the pop-up has closed as for security reasons JavaScript has no access to the window-array.


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Would this work for a workaround?

What if I create a child page that uses a php include to display the external page - that way I can include javascript in the child page.

what JS would I need to a) launch the popup from a link and then b) redirect the parent page when the child page closes? would i use an onUnload? what syntax would i need?

I don't think what you suggest will work. The pop-up body onunload event cannot be passed back to the parent page.

try adding something like this:

functio openNewWindow()
{

var zWin = window.open(.....);
winListen(zWin);
}

function winListen(zWin)
{
do
{
//dummy code
}
while (zWin != null)

redirectToOtherPage();
}