Hi Dean, The most simplest check that I could think of is this: request.getSession().isNew(); if this returns true, then the session is a new one and hence, the previous session has been timed out. However, this solution will not work if the server uses a cookie-based session and the client has disabled cookies.
Another way to overcome this problem would be to set a variable in session, in the beginning of your registration process. At the beginning of every page, you check the variable is populated. If not, you will know that the previous session has not been carried over. Hope this helps. Cheers, Sweta -----Original Message----- From: Dean A. Hoover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 April 2004 16:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: detecting session timeout Any suggestions on how to detect session timeouts? I am experimenting with extending TilesRequestProcessor (I'm using struts 1.1 and tiles). Here's an example of the kind of thing I would like to detect: I have a multipage registration process. Suppose a user gets halfway through and then goes away for some reason (lunch?). They come back and their session has timed out. This means that the data that was gathered and placed in the session on previous forms is gone. The validator framework then complains about missing data from the previous pages. I just want to put up a special page indicating that they took too long to register. I need this same basic session in a number of places, so I really need a general solution. Any ideas? Dean Hoover --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
