jQuery ajax call in onunload handler firing AFTER getting the page on a manual refresh. How do I guarantee onunload happens first?

Question

I have a situation where on page unload I am firing a request to delete the draft of a user\'s work. This works fine until a user chooses to refresh the page, whereupon ins

Answer 1

I'm here to confirm @Silkster answer. I can fire an AJAX request after set an option async = false

Here is the example code.

$(window).unload( function () {
    $.ajaxSetup ({
        async: false  
    });
    $.get("target.php");
});