What does this code do?

**Jon Lawrance** · Jun 13, 2007 02:43

Please forgive me but I know very little about javascript but need to konw what this code does:

Code:

<script language="JavaScript">
var exit=true;
function exitwindow()
{
var url = 'http://www.thankyoupath.com/product.php?id=2babae1ec6-e3a5708fcb-9683ae5f0e-45562cfb27';
var win = 'toolbar=0,directories=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,width=800,height=600';

if (exit)
open(url,'WindowName',win); }

</script>

Can any kind soul tell me?

Thanks,

Jon

**AutisticCuckoo** · Jun 13, 2007 03:07

It tries to pop up a window containing the specified URL.

From the name, I'd say it's one of those utterly annoying pop-ups some site subject their visitors to when they leave the site. Fortunately, any decent pop-up blocker will stop this.

**Jon Lawrance** · Jun 13, 2007 03:45

Does it only try to popup the window when you leave the page? Or when you enter?

**AutisticCuckoo** · Jun 13, 2007 03:48

It's impossible to say from that code fragment. It's a function that opens a pop-up window if the global variable exit does not evaluate to false.

My guess is that it's intended to be called somewhere along these lines:

HTML Code:

<body onunload="exitwindow();">

Unless you add a call to it somewhere on your page, the code you posted won't do anything at all.

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