Sometimes the best solution is the simplest, and in this case,
overlooked.

Thanks Ross!
Strom

On Feb 22, 5:46 pm, Ross Mellgren <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2010, at 8:39 PM, Strom wrote:
>
> > Thanks for responding Ross. Always helpful.
>
> > On Feb 22, 5:25 pm, Ross Mellgren <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Session scope is until the LiftSession expires (which is tied to the 
> >> container session) and is longer.
> > How does one determine the container session scope? Anywhere I can
> > read up on this basic knowledge?
>
> Well the precise details depend on the container, but most containers by 
> default set a cookie called JSESSIONID that is used to maintain the session 
> ID and the cookie last until browser logout. The server-side session data is 
> usually kept alive 20 minutes from the most recent time a request used that 
> session ID, but it's configurable in web.xml, and perhaps overridable in 
> whatever container-specific config is available.
>
> >> Request scope is during the "current page" which means the original page 
> >> request and any associated AJAX callbacks and other function bindings.
> > Does this include redirects to the same page with additional query
> > parameters? I'm using this to search, and would like to have the query
> > params so people can bookmark their search.
>
> I don't believe it includes these. If you want something bookmarkable, you 
> should explicitly place whatever parameters need to persist in the query 
> string -- function mapping bindings are ephemeral, and even so the session 
> would be expired by the time the bookmark was used.
>
> > Thanks again!
>
> No problem.
>
> -Ross

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