Or, if you’re building for clients with a traditional “enterprise” and “secure” IT infrastructure: add refresh buttons and call it a day.
If there’s one thing in my experience that consistently fails in these environments and cannot be fixed due to endless red tape, it’s trying to make real-time work for these type of clients.
Clearly I don’t know what your application is, but many heavyweight “web apps” don’t cope with a simple refresh, kicking back to a default screen or even login screen in some cases.
Sometimes this is to scope logins to single tabs for security reasons (I think that's why Userify does it that way). It's annoying but for infrequently used apps, no worse than getting logged out every three minutes.
