decouple parent window from children

[epaetz]

Is there a way to decouple the linkage between a parent and a child
window?

Does the parent window have any sort of a collection that holds all the
children that it has spawned?

I want to break that connection from the parent side or the child
side, it doesn't matter as long as the communication link is completely
broken. I don't want the parent to be aware of the child and
vice-versa.

I don't want to close the parent or any of the children either.

 

[web.dev]

Is there a way to decouple the linkage between a parent and a child
window?

When you open a new window, there is no parent-child relationship
between the browser windows in a sense.

Does the parent window have any sort of a collection that holds all the
children that it has spawned?

Not a collection. However, when you open a new window, the
window.open() method will return a reference to the window that you've
opened.

"Child" windows know who opened them through window.opener property.

I want to break that connection from the parent side or the child
side, it doesn't matter as long as the communication link is completely
broken. I don't want the parent to be aware of the child and
vice-versa.

I don't want to close the parent or any of the children either.

When you close the parent window, none of the "child" windows will
close and vice-versa.

 

[epaetz]

Here's the behavior I'm observing.

I have two web applications. Each one uses a browser session cookie on
the client's browser window.

I created a simple portal page that has a link to each of the two apps.
When you click on either link, it opens the respective app in a popup.

When I open the first app, I can use the app normally. I then open the
second app which also works normally. But when I attempt to use the
first app, it appears to have lost it's session cookie, or as I
suspect, it's session cookie has been replaced with the session cookie
from the 2nd popup.

Why do I suspect this? If I close all the open session, and reopen the
portal and click on the first application, I can copy the URL from the
first application and paste it into the url of the parent and then have
complete access to the first application. It appears that the parent
window also gets session cookie of the popup!

Is this normal behavior for children and parent windows?

Thanks,
E