Re: definition/usage of session-timeout?

2003-11-25 Thread Justin Ruthenbeck
At 07:08 AM 11/25/2003, you wrote: Ben, Thanks for the reply. But I'm still unclear on why setting the timeout won't work for my situation. What is the difference between an effectively idle session timing out, and "cancelling" a request? Of course I agree that fixing the root problem would

Re: definition/usage of session-timeout?

2003-11-25 Thread Ben Souther
A session timeout just means that the next time you hit the site with the same browser, you will be assigned a new JSPSessionID to bind that transaction with your session object. It would do nothing to stop a request that's hung. Think of a "request" as one hit to a server and a "session" as se

Re: definition/usage of session-timeout?

2003-11-25 Thread Ron W.
Ben, Thanks for the reply. But I'm still unclear on why setting the timeout won't work for my situation. What is the difference between an effectively idle session timing out, and "cancelling" a request? Of course I agree that fixing the root problem would be preferable, but it's extremely

Re: definition/usage of session-timeout?

2003-11-25 Thread Ben Souther
JSP/Servlet technology uses a solution called the HttpSession to overcome the limitations of the stateless HTTP protocol. Tomcat uses cookies to map a particular web user to his/her session object. The developer can bind objects to a user's session object and then retrieve them on subsequent hit

definition/usage of session-timeout?

2003-11-24 Thread WALKUP, RON [AG/1000]
Hi, I'm a relatively new Tomcat user, running 4.0.4 (testing on Windows, deploying on Sun UNIX). The UNIX servlet is having rare problems "hanging", for which the exact cause is unknown. I'm trying to see if a session timeout can solve the problem, but have not been able to get it to work.