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Very long lived sessions

Martin J. Laubach-2
  I'm thinking about doing a helpdesk support application using
seaside -- with that in mind, this means that the usual session
will last for about 8 hours, and needs a session timeout in that
range as to minimize the need to login (ie. they login in the morning
and then use the same session all over the day). Is that something
one needs to be concerned about?

  Will it accumulate a lot of cruft in memory just to support the
back button? As the helpdesk people won't usually use the back
button, is there a possibility to jettison older state information
(say older than 15min -- as opposed to the 8h session timeout), and
if they really go back there, will be redirected to some kind of main
menu page?

  As said, I'm not sure that is really relevant -- is it?

  Regards,

        mjl
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Re: Very long lived sessions

William Harford
No you should be fine.

Seaside only stores about 20 back button clicks.

The only problem you might have is if you get a huge number of  
sessions but in your application that may not be a problem.

Just as a note. The session time out only applies to sessions that  
have had no activity for that period of time. So I don't think you  
would need an 8 hour timeout. A 30 minute or 1 hour timeout might be  
better.

Will

On 21-Feb-06, at 7:42 AM, Martin J. Laubach wrote:

>   I'm thinking about doing a helpdesk support application using
> seaside -- with that in mind, this means that the usual session
> will last for about 8 hours, and needs a session timeout in that
> range as to minimize the need to login (ie. they login in the morning
> and then use the same session all over the day). Is that something
> one needs to be concerned about?
>
>   Will it accumulate a lot of cruft in memory just to support the
> back button? As the helpdesk people won't usually use the back
> button, is there a possibility to jettison older state information
> (say older than 15min -- as opposed to the 8h session timeout), and
> if they really go back there, will be redirected to some kind of main
> menu page?
>
>   As said, I'm not sure that is really relevant -- is it?
>
>   Regards,
>
> mjl
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