Refresh a page Once on refocus?

[ElectricRain]

Bacsically, I have a login script, and you can log in either on the main page, child(?) page in a seperate window. Now if someone has logged in on a external page, then closes that window, they dont show up as logged in on the main page till they refresh it. I need for that page to automatically refresh just once when it comes back into focus, but its important that its just once- I cant use a meta refresh for this. Ideas?

[rikmoncur]

As I read it, what you have is a main page where folks can log in and that's no problem.
But you have a seperate page, which sounds like a popup window, where folks can also login?

What you can do then, is when a user closes the seperate window, have a javascript in it's body tag.....

onunload="window.open('yourmainpage.php')"

and if it's a popup window, you can tell it to close the popup with a call to opener.window.close()

umm... I think that's what's needed?