Session variable *could* clear under those conditions, depending on how your
app is configured. Sessions are tracked (by default) automatically by CF
with two automatically generated cookies, CFID and CFTOKEN. As long as
these cookies exist int he browser AND the session timeout has not been
reached, the session will stay alive.
> 1. When the user goes to a different site.
Doesn't destroy the cookies, therefore session does not timeout till the
actual timeout value is reached.
> 2. When the browser closes.
Again, this depends on the behavior of the cookies. Are they written to
disk or set to expire when the browser is closed. I can't remember which
setting CF uses automatically, but you can set CF not to automatically set
the cookies, and do it yourself. Look up the setclientcookies attribute in
the cfapplication tag. You can then set the cookies manually using cfcookie
and by referring to session.cfid and session.cftoken. cfcookie allow you to
set the cookie timeout to anything you want, so have fun...
> 3. When the session timeout is reached.
Yes, always... When the session timeout is reached, the session is
destroyed.
-Cameron
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Cameron Childress
ElliptIQ Inc.
p.770.460.7277.232
f.770.460.0963
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kinley Pon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 3:02 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Session Variables
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was under the understanding that session variables will reset
> or clear out
> under the following circumstances:
> 1. When the user goes to a different site.
> 2. When the browser closes.
> 3. When the session timeout is reached.
>
> Sometimes it appears the session variables are not resetting or clearing
> out.
>
> Am I missing something
>
> Justme
>
>
>
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