Hi I m running locally using a react FE and express BE and W

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Hi I m running locally using a react FE and express BE and When my backend is down and I logout is does not log me out Is this the expected behavior I would expect the cookies to be cleaned and logout to succeed `import Session from supertokens web js recipe session await Session signOut `

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Hey < marcglassmanvee>

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Logout implies two things

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clearing cookies which can only be done by the backend since cookies are httpOnly

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and clearing tokens in db which again can only be done by the backend

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So if the backend is down neither of these can be done hence session doesn t get cleared

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What you could do is to override the sign out function on the frontend and catch the error thrown by the original implementation in case backend is down and save some localstorage state signifying that this happened

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Then on each page navigation you could check if that state is set and if it is show a popup to the user telling them that they will be logged out and then call the signOut function again

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But I wouldn t really recommend it since it s an odd flow in my opinion