Actually, I found Charles idea quite neat!
We have a problem with users walking away from their computers in the
middle of a session, coming back and submitting information that is
contextual to their session. We of course report to them that they have
to log in again, but they get frustrated that they've typed in all sorts
of information that has now been "lost". By sending them to a login page
when their session times out, they won't be able to enter information on a
stale page...
Lance Lavandowska
Software Engineer
http://www.AgDomain.Com
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, August 26, 1999 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: window alert when session has timed out or other scheme.
>That will only work if the user hasn't moved off the current page since
they
>left your server. If they just went on to another site, the refresh is
>lost. I'm not sure how useful any of this is. If the user isn't coming
>back to the site, they definately don't want to know that their session
>timed out, if they are, they'll be notified that the session timed out
and
>asked to re-log in. Seems to me that the notification is just an
annoyance.
> (*Chris*)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Charles Forsythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 2:06 PM
>Subject: Re: window alert when session has timed out or other scheme.
>
>
>> Chris Pratt wrote:
>> > Since the reason that a session times out is that there
>> > has not been a connection between the browser and server for
>> > a specific amount of time (usually 30 minutes), it would be
>> > impossible for the server to notify the client of that event.
>>
>> You could force a connection by embedding a REFRESH directive in your
>headers,
>> set to 32 minutes (X + 2 minutes, where X is the timeout). That way,
just
>> after the session expired on the server, the browser would attempt a
page
>> reload. If the person had left an application page sitting open, then
it
>could
>> do something interactive, like send them to a login screen to
>re-authenticate.
>> If the user had closed his or her browser, or left the site, then the
>session
>> would quietly expire on the server.
>>
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: Ssemwogerere, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 6:42 AM
>> > Subject: window alert when session has timed out or other scheme.
>> >
>> > > Is there a way to send a JavaScript alert to the screen when the
>session
>> > has
>> > > timed out?
>> > >
>> > > If the user is on a particular page of the application, they walk
away
>> > from
>> > > their computer, the session times out, when they come back there is
>this
>> > > little alert window telling them what happened, they click on it to
be
>> > taken
>> > > to the welcome screen where they create a new session and login
again.
>> > >
>> > > I am using JRun 2.3, IIS, Win NT,jsdk 2.1, jdk1.2.
>> > >
>> > > If you know of a better scheme to handle session time out, that
would
>be
>> > > helpful.
>> > >
>> > > Joe S.
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
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