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HttpResponse.IsClientConnected Property

Gets a value indicating whether the client is still connected to the server.

Namespace:  System.Web
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

'Declaration
Public ReadOnly Property IsClientConnected As Boolean

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean
true if the client is currently connected; otherwise, false.

The IsClientConnected property returns false when the following conditions are true:

The following example uses the IsClientConnected property to check whether the client that is requesting the page remains connected to the server. If IsClientConnected is true, the code calls the Redirect method, and the client will view another page. If IsClientConnected is false, then the code calls the End method and all page processing is terminated.


<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
    Private Sub Page_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)

        ' Check whether the browser remains
        ' connected to the server.
        If (Response.IsClientConnected) Then

            ' If still connected, redirect
            ' to another page.             
            Response.Redirect("Page2VB.aspx", false)
        Else
            ' If the browser is not connected
            ' stop all response processing.
            Response.End()
        End If
    End Sub
</script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <title>ASP.NET Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    </form>
</body>
</html>


.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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