Hello there... I've been kicking around ideas of how to keep a user's session 'alive' once they get logged in on a site. The scenario is a common one...
An admin logs into the backend tools to add something. They sit on a form typing in a long, long news article or something When they are finally done an hour later, they go to submit it and their session has died and they have to log in again... then all the info they entered is gone and I get yelled at. :) I do NOT want to use cookies on these sections so I need something to keep hitting a page (really any page I guess) in the background to keep the session alive as long as their browser is open. I thought about a frame with a meta refreshed page in it but thats not very creative :) I thought about a tiny swf to do basically the same thing... thats a little better I guess. And I thought about a JS routine to occasionally fire itself based on a timer to do an httprequest to another page that will: Check the session (if it's still active, that would reset its timeout right?) If it's active, return "active" or whatever. If it's inactive, pass along the encrypted login info to log them back in and return "active" If for any reason the session is dead and cant be reset, return "inactive" so a hidden div or JS alert can inform them to at least copy what they have written in the field so they dont lose it because they are going to have to log in again. If the user ever got to the page, their session was active and valid so any login info could be ported from the session scope the variables scope on that page and used anytime I wanted. (like for logging them back in) I obviously like the last 'idea' better due to the elaboration :) but wanted to know what others thought about it or if you guys and gals had another solution I havent thought of. (short of turning the session timeout up to some ridiculous amount of time) ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.10/189 - Release Date: 11/30/2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:225845 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
