Thanks for the response. I believe that just controls the timeout of the session on the server, and maybe the timeout of the cookies. To be more specific, I am asking about the timeout of the jsessionid cookie on the client. Is it possible to control these separately, i.e., set session-timeout to 30 minutes, but make the jsessionid cookie expire when the browser is closed, or alternatively, make the cookie expire in 30 minutes, so the user could close his browser, and come back to the app later and still maintain his session.
The difference between the types of cookies I am talking about I think are actually called "browser-session cookies", which means that the browser keeps the cookies in memory for the life of the browser, or in the second case, writes them to disk for retrieval later. Ian. -----Original Message----- From: Sean Dockery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:29 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Sessions across browser restarts In your web.xml file, add the following block: <webapp> ... <!-- Define the default session timeout for your application, in minutes. From a servlet or JSP page, you can modify the timeout for a particular session dynamically by using HttpSession.setMaxInactiveInterval(). --> <session-config> <session-timeout>30</session-timeout> <!-- session times out after 30 minutes --> </session-config> ... </webapp> As indicated in the comments, check the documentation for HttpSession.setMaxInactiveInterval. The documentation states that a negative value indicates that the session does not timeout (though according to BEA WebLogic documentation, -2 means to use the session descriptor declared in the weblogic.xml (aka server.xml) file. At 14:09 2003-02-04, you wrote: >In Tomcat 4.0, is it possible to configure if a session is lost when the >browser window is closed, or if the user's session persists across browser >restarts? > >In some other languages, it was possible to take the session cookies and set >their timeout to a value of 0 or -1 and this would make the cookies get >cleared when the browser window was closed. How do you configure this in >Tomcat? > >Ian. Sean Dockery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Certified Java Web Component Developer Certified Delphi Programmer SBD Consultants http://www.sbdconsultants.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
