Dispatch Flash Event when person closes browser

Question

I have an RTMP stream loading and would like to know the drop off time of the video. Is there a method of knowing when a person abruptly leaves the video session by closing the window, back button, address bar, etc?

Or do i need to make an external interface call from JavaScript to Flash using something like onunload & onbeforeunload events?

I am guessing that it is the later, but wanted to see if there was a method of keeping all my code inside of AS3.

Thanks

Answer 1

Have you considered listening to the following event: flash.events.NetStatusEvent from your NetConnection object?

I read on Adobe's forum that the NetStatusEvent event could be part of the solution although it seems its not enough in all cases. Some mention a ping functionality or databases log to find out when exactly the client disconnected.

I would try to combine the NetStatusEvent functionality with a Javascript listener.