Re: session expiration

2000-11-21 Thread Steve van der Burg
>So basically I want to set a cookie that will allow them to enter the site >under their userid, but I can't allow them to enter if they are currently >logged in from elsewhere. > >Any ideas? I use cookie-based auth in a few places, with a "can be logged in only once" restriction, but I duck the

Re: session expiration

2000-11-20 Thread Trey Connell
Yeah, big troubleI'm thinking the client's just retarded. ;~) Bill Moseley wrote: > At 05:20 PM 11/20/00 -0600, Trey Connell wrote: > >The latter will be accomplished with cookies and the first rule will be > >enforced with a "loggedin" flag in the database. My problem lies in the user > >

Re: session expiration

2000-11-20 Thread Michael Peppler
Trey Connell writes: > Well, this is the basic scenario. > > The same userid cannot be logged into the app more than once at any given > time. Also, we want to use a cookie to keep the user from having to explicitly > login everytime. Just some random ideas, not necessarily the ideal solut

Re: session expiration

2000-11-20 Thread Bill Moseley
At 05:20 PM 11/20/00 -0600, Trey Connell wrote: >The latter will be accomplished with cookies and the first rule will be >enforced with a "loggedin" flag in the database. My problem lies in the user >not explicitly clicking logout when they leave the site. If they explicitly >click logout, i can

Re: session expiration

2000-11-20 Thread Trey Connell
Well, this is the basic scenario. The same userid cannot be logged into the app more than once at any given time. Also, we want to use a cookie to keep the user from having to explicitly login everytime. The latter will be accomplished with cookies and the first rule will be enforced with a "lo

Re: session expiration

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Bishop
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Bill Moseley wrote: > At 03:00 PM 11/20/00 -0600, Trey Connell wrote: > >Is there anyway to know that a user has disconnected from their session > >through network failure, power off, or browser closure? > > How is that different from just going out for a cup of coffee or

Re: session expiration

2000-11-20 Thread Bill Moseley
At 03:00 PM 11/20/00 -0600, Trey Connell wrote: >Is there anyway to know that a user has disconnected from their session >through network failure, power off, or browser closure? How is that different from just going out for a cup of coffee or opening a new browser window and looking at a differe

Re: session expiration

2000-11-20 Thread Trey Connell
Yeah, thought about that, but that won't work if they are sitting behind a firewall. Trey Craig E Ransom wrote: > Hi Trey! > > > Is there anyway to know that a user has disconnected from their session > > through network failure, power off, or browser closure? > > > How about extracting the use

Re: session expiration

2000-11-20 Thread Craig E Ransom
Hi Trey! > Is there anyway to know that a user has disconnected from their session > through network failure, power off, or browser closure? > How about extracting the user's IP address and then, if he hasn't sent anything over for a time period, ping him? -- Craig (The Data Ferret) http://www

session expiration

2000-11-20 Thread Trey Connell
Is there anyway to know that a user has disconnected from their session through network failure, power off, or browser closure? I am logging information about the user to a database when they login to a site, and I need to clean up this data when they leave. Obviously this is no problem with the