Just use J2EE session variables within the CF administrator. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com http://cf4em.com
-----Original Message----- From: marc -- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 4:53 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Session variables expireation issue Hello, Just a basic question about session variables.I can't get them to 100% work as I want. Maybe I don't understand so that's when it's time to turn to the list :) I want to use session variables that expire a) when the user closes the browser OR b) when a session times out,whatever comes first. For a) I do (all in Application.cfc): <cfset THIS.sessionmanagement="yes"> <cfset THIS.sessiontimeout="#CreateTimeSpan(0,0,0,10)#"> <cfset THIS.setclientcookies="false"> and <cffunction name="onSessionStart" access="public" description="initialize session parameters" output="false" returntype="void"> <cfcookie name="CFID" value="#SESSION.CFID#" > <cfcookie name="CFTOKEN" value="#SESSION.CFTOKEN#" > <cfreturn /> </cffunction> This makes that sessions expire when user closes browser. For b) add the expires tag to CFCOOKIE with the value specified in THIS.sessiontimeout: if the user does a request _after_the specified timeout period, the CFID/CFTOKEN cookies are not valid anymore (expires has a datetime value that is in the past) so coldfusion will create new values for SESSION.CFID and SESSION.CFTOKEN and call onSessionStart. Setting 2 new cookies with new values for value and expires. <cffunction name="onSessionStart" access="public" description="initialize session parameters" output="false" returntype="void"> <cfcookie name="CFID" value="#SESSION.CFID#" expires="#THIS.sessiontimeout#"> <cfcookie name="CFTOKEN" value="#SESSION.CFTOKEN#" expires="#THIS.sessiontimeout#"> <cfreturn /> </cffunction> To test this I added <cfdump var="#SESSION#"> to the onRequest() function. It turned out that the values displayed in the dump did never change after a 2nd whether that request was within the timespan OR after. That's strange. I thought that if the 2nd request is after the timepout period new values for CFID/CFTOKEn are generated. Am I wrong? And if so, is it possible what I want? Marc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:304688 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
