# Is it possible to terminate designer sessions from the Gateway webportal like Vision clients can be terminated?

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [May 16, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-it-possible-to-terminate-designer-sessions-from-the-gateway-webportal-like-vision-clients-can-be-terminated/106353 "2025-05-16T20:18:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![sherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sherman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sherman)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-it-possible-to-terminate-designer-sessions-from-the-gateway-webportal-like-vision-clients-can-be-terminated/106353/1 "2025-05-16T20:18:10Z")

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I have some hanging designer connections that we suspect are causing problems, and I realize now that the button terminate them remotely like Vision clients does not exist. Is there another way to do this?

The Vision Client section in Gateway -\> Status looks like this

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/7/1759f738a926a3e8d2e0a5474d4f05c49a6e96c9.png)

But the Designer section only has

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/f/9f608c34bfd0256fed0230a44a155f8b0246ae00.png)  
no More -\> Terminate

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-it-possible-to-terminate-designer-sessions-from-the-gateway-webportal-like-vision-clients-can-be-terminated/106353/2 "2025-05-16T22:15:57Z")

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The frontend page doesn't have a means to quickly run it, but the plumbing is all in place for designer sessions; you need to issue an authenticated `DELETE` request to `/designers/$id`, where the ID is the one used for that particular session.

But like Vision, this is a _cooperative_ session delete. All it does is send a message to the running client/designer **asking** it to terminate itself. If it's hung and not responsive, it's not likely to have any effect.

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**Author:** ![sherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sherman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sherman)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-it-possible-to-terminate-designer-sessions-from-the-gateway-webportal-like-vision-clients-can-be-terminated/106353/3 "2025-05-16T22:21:42Z")

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I see -- this would not have solved my problem, which was related to zombie connections stuck via no-longer-existant VPN tunnels. But good to know! I believe we have encountered bug IGN-7833.