[1.x] user session hangs on browser tab closed

[B-R-Bender]

[email protected]

Have you tested a more recent version of Janus too?
Yes. I've tried to updated my dependency from "janus-gateway": "git:https://github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway.git", to "janus-gateway": "^1.2.3", but it behaves the same

Was this working before?
It's working with janus 0.x server and [email protected] for sure

Additional context
Hello guys!
I've noticed that after I've moved from janus legacy version to a new one my users sessions is not destroyed on tab/browser closed.
It keeps hanging on the server till it will be killed by timeout. I've tried to update my janus version on a client but no use. Is there any suggestion on how to fix this or anything I can try to look into? Also I've tried to google this issues but haven't found anything pretty much related, I'm wondering an I the only one experiencing such issue?

Thanks in advance.

[lminiero]

You need to provide more details. What plugin? What's the scenario?

[B-R-Bender]

Hello Lorenzo.

Actually that's any janus plugin I'm using, video and audio room - for sure

The scenario is quite simple: let's say that when the page loads, I connect to the Janus server and join several audio rooms. If I close the tab, my handlers/session will not be destroyed, so if I open the same page again within a minute interval (default timeout) I will get a "User busy" response.

[atoppi]

This has nothing to do with janus, intended as the server.
The concept is that the client should do its best to notify the server a teardown and if that does not happen (e.g. abrupt disconnection) then server timeout kicks in.

The session should be destroyed when closing a tab/client but that totally depends on:

• the client implementation (e.g. janus.js)
• the runtime (e.g. browser/os) running the code
• the transport in use (WS? HTTP? etc)

For example janus.js will try to destroy the session on the browser beforeUnload event and that will in turn close the WebSocket or send a beacon if using long-poll.

You might want to check if those mechanisms are working in your environment and if some elements in the middle (proxies/LB) can interfere with those.