Hi Stephan,
 Is that possible that a client had closed the browser and opens a new
browser and we can still identify the client using session cookies?

Thanks
Romesh

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Stephan Hartmann <[email protected]>wrote:

> Keep in mind that sessions managed by the servlet container expire after a
> specific time of inactivity on the server side, so if a user comes back
> after a while with his old session cookie, he will still get a new session.
> According to the servlet spec, you can obtain this value with
> HttpSession.getMaxInactiveInterval() and change it with
> HttpSession.setMaxInactiveInterval(int), with a value of -1 meaning never to
> expire.
>
> Regards,
> Stephan
>
>
> 2010/5/27 lembas <[email protected]>
>
> thanks romesh. I was on vacation did not see your message. sorry for a
>> late answer.
>>
>> I do not "use cookies for managing session". Google does. JESSIONID
>> cookies is created on server by App Engine anyway. I just extend its
>> expiration date.
>> Is it possible to implement "remember me" functionality without
>> cookies?
>>
>> On May 3, 11:22 am, romesh soni <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hey Ikai, sorry I referred you by mistake.. My msg was for lembas
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:23 PM, romesh soni <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > > Hi Ikai,
>> >
>> > > the way you are managing session is not good. actually you are using
>> > > cookies for managing session, which is not a good thing.
>> > > instead session management is done at server side, not client side.
>> >
>> > > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Ikai L (Google) <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > >> I'm not sure how this mitigates use of the _ah_session records that
>> are
>> > >> created. Anytime you set an attribute, it will use this. If you're
>> worried
>> > >> about _ah_session getting out of control, a better way would be to
>> use
>> > >> Memcache for session data and associate it with a cookie. Stale,
>> unused
>> > >> session data will be automatically expired. The advantage of using
>> the built
>> > >> in sessions is that since they are backed by both Memcache and the
>> > >> datastore, they're going to be less volatile.
>> >
>> > >> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM, lembas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > >>> I have couple of questions about session management. I use GWT+GAE.
>> I
>> > >>> do not want my _ah_sessions table to be out of control. I do not
>> want
>> > >>> to generate unnecessary sessions.
>> >
>> > >>> I have <sessions-enabled>true</sessions-enabled> in my appengine-
>> > >>> web.xml.
>> >
>> > >>> 1.I have the following code at the beginning of my onModuleLoad()
>> > >>> method, is it ok?
>> > >>> String sessionid = Cookies.getCookie("JSESSIONID");
>> > >>> if (sessionid != null) {
>> > >>>        Date now = new Date();
>> > >>>        Date expires = new Date(now.getTime() + (long) 1000 * 60 * 60
>> * 24
>> > >>> *
>> > >>> 365);
>> > >>>        Cookies.setCookie("JSESSIONID", sessionid, expires);
>> > >>> }
>> >
>> > >>> 2.After the user sends his/her username&password to the server for
>> the
>> > >>> first time (i.e. with a new JSESSIONID cookie), I get that "user"
>> > >>> object from database and if I have it, I save it using:
>> > >>> getThreadLocalRequest().getSession().setAttribute("user", user);
>> > >>> and send it to the client as a sign of a succesful login.
>> >
>> > >>> So next time client visits the site with the same JSESSIONID I can
>> get
>> > >>> the user object directly by:
>> > >>> getThreadLocalRequest().getSession().getAttribute("user");
>> >
>> > >>> ---
>> >
>> > >>> Is it ok how I use the sesssion management? Is it true that every
>> > >>> request comes with the same JSESSIONID (unless client deleted it
>> > >>> deliberately), no new session is created on server and server do not
>> > >>> need to access database to get the user object?
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