Another thing:

It isn't clear from the discussion so far is you want to CLOSE the browser, or return the user back to the page they were on before they got to your site. It sounds to me that you mean the latter.

You could store the ReferrerURL when a user first hits your application. Then your "close" functionality could just redirect them back to where they were. This wouldn't provide a complete "rewind" like behavior, but it's as close as you're likely to get.

-Peter

Peter:

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it, but it didn't work.
That is, the window requesting the user to confirm shutting down the app still
appears.

I'm using(MS VS 2005 Enterprise, ASP.NET 2.0) and IE7.
An interesting note on the javascript function is:

I put a break point while in a debugging environment on the first line in the java
script function "self.opener=self". Single stepping on the second line caused the confirmation window to appear. This leads me to believe that the .close() method calls for the window to appear in spite of trying to trick it in believing the opener is itself.

Here's the relevent code. Maybe there is something else that needs to be done to trick it?

function selfclose()
{
    self.opener=self;
    self.close();
}
}

<input id="btnExitWebsite" type="button" value="Exit Website" onclick="selfclose()"/>

Thanks,
VV

The self.opener=self trick only worked on IE 6 and earlier.

The loophole, closing the browser without user's consent, was closed in IE 7.

Imar
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Rats!!!
Thanks Imar.
VV