Re: invalidating stale sessions or objects linked to a sessionId

[Gokul Singh]

Hi, A better idea might be to look at the javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingListener interface. This might help you to delete the file the moment the session becomes invalid. Regds, Gokul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bartsch Axel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 7:33 PM Subject: [SERVLET-INTEREST] invalidating stale sessions or objects linked to a sessionId > Hi, > > Is there a possibility to invalidate stale sessions and to delete objects linked to a no more valid session? > > My problem: > In my processing I create a file using the sessionId as filename. > If now the user does not correctly log off and instead just does nothing or closes his browser the session will at some time become invalid (latest at closing the browser). > But the file will rest forever: > So my idea was to search at each new login all existing such (in a special directory) files, to compare their filenames with all still valid session Ids. And if a certain session Id is not valid anymore I would have deleted the file. > > Now how can I find all valid session Ids. This was possible using the HttpSessionContext class. But in the API description is written that this interface will be deleted as of Servlet API 2.1. > > Is there another possibility to find all valid session Ids or to check if a certain session Id is still valid? > > Axel Lannion/France > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html