Not just one reason but THE reason :)
 
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Bobby Hartsfield
http://acoderslife.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 6:40 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Keeping a session alive

> Why not set the session timeout to be a very large value?
> 
> It seems almost pointless to have the keep-alive "ping" yet 
> still want to keep the site authenticated?

One reason you might do this is to keep a session alive as long as the
browser is actually open and pointing to that site, but kill the session
quickly as soon as that isn't the case.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
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