On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Matt Feifarek <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> You don't know when the user closes the browser.  In fact, you don't
>> know anything after the user's last request, whether you will hear
>> from them again or not.
>
> Right, but I've always wanted this... although it is stateless, there is
> still an event we can use.
>
> The appserver knows when it cleans up or expires the session... couldn't we
> do an event hook there, something like "on_expire()"?

That would be useful for the case of sessions that have external
resources to clean up.  I got a private question this week about
having per-user SQLAlchemy engines.  Those can't be pickled so they
can't be stored in the session, so I suggested putting a dict on
pylons.app_globals for them, but again you have the problem of
expiring them.

Pylons/Paste doesn't have a cron scheduler to sweep through and expire
old sessions, but maybe it's time we added that.  Or rather... it
would only work with PasteHTTPServer.  mod_wsgi doesn't have a Python
server process to trigger the events or run them in.

-- 
Mike Orr <[email protected]>

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