I'm not sure about Resin, but in Tomcat if you have a negative max inactive
interval then your sessions will not timeout.
Justy
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From: "Patrick Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:30 PM
Subject: Sessions and Cookies part 2.
> Hi
>
> I think I left out something with my last email. (I have my last email
> appended to this email, so that people have a reference to it.)
>
> My question is can we stop the session from going to null/timing out? If
> the session times out, building a web site around session variables would
> be very unstable. In this instance, it would be better to use cookies
> instead. However it is difficult as not all web browsers are cookies
enabled.
>
> I also would like to hear people's opinion of this as well - sessions or
> cookies? (At the moment, its cookies because session variables are
unstable.)
>
> -------------------------------- MY old
email --------------------------------
> Hi
> I have a problem with using session object and cookies with jsps.
> The problem is that I have set the session max inactive interval to 5
hours
> (300 mins * 60 secs) and after a certain time - the shortest being 5 mins,
> the session times out. When I access a session variable using people_id =
> (String) session.getAttribute("people_id"); I get a nullpointerException.
> Anyone here knows whats wrong. Here is a sniplet of my code.
> in the login.jsp file
> int sessionTime = 300*60; file://300 mins session time
> session = request.getSession(true);
> session.setMaxInactiveInterval(sessionTime);
> session.setAttribute((String) "group_id",group_id);
> session.setAttribute((String) "role_id", role_id);
> session.setAttribute((String) "accessTime", new Long(accessTime));
> in other files
> session = request.getSession();
> String people_id = (String) session.getAttribute("people_id");
> etc etc.
> I have used the following function to detect whether the session is null
or
> not
> if (session.getAttribute("people_id")!=null) {
>
>
> }
> else {
> throw new Exception("no people access. ");
> }
> Sometimes this works and other times, a null pointer exception is raised,
> eg the 'no people access' is raised. Is this a problem in Resin (I am
using
> Resin 1.2.5) ? Or a problem with my source?
> Patrick
>
>
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