[appengine-java] Re: Session Management on GAE

2010-11-29 Thread Stefan
Hi Alexander, Google also provides a servlet to help with deleting stale session info. Have a look at this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/4f0d9af1c633d39a Best regards, Stefan On 23 Nov., 18:06, Alexander Arendar alexander.aren...@gmail.com

Re: [appengine-java] Re: session management

2010-05-31 Thread Stephan Hartmann
Normally, session cookies are created non-persistent on the browser side, but you could try to re-set the session cookie in a filter and use Cookie.setMaxAge(int) to make it persistent, like lembas did with GWT in his initial post. For plain Servlet API it could look like: String sessionId =

Re: [appengine-java] Re: session management

2010-05-28 Thread romesh soni
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 hartm...@metamesh.dewrote: Keep in mind that sessions managed by the servlet

Re: [appengine-java] Re: session management

2010-05-27 Thread romesh soni
Hi Keremonal, As my practice I don't depend on Cookies for session management, because if cookie is disabled at client browser then you will always get a new session id and your data which was previously stored in session gets lost. As I think _ahsession is a very good thing for session mgmt. The

Re: [appengine-java] Re: session management

2010-05-27 Thread romesh soni
Cookies are the most suitable thing for the remember me functionality best works. Because sessions end with the end of browser window and cookies still survive (if specified long life) Romesh On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:28 PM, lembas keremo...@gmail.com wrote: thanks romesh. I was on vacation

Re: [appengine-java] Re: session management

2010-05-27 Thread Stephan Hartmann
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