Hi,
This is my first post here so wish me luck J
My question is as follow:
I have a web based application running on tomcat 6.0.29
On my main page there is a polling ajax call every 5 seconds.
Clearly this revalidates the session and by that renders the session
timeout feature unusable
I read about two main solutions for this issue
1. Coding on the server side (filter) a simple snippet that
identifies an ajax call based on a parameter passed and based on that
knows if this is a valid post or a polling hit that should not affect
the session expiration date
2. Create a stub webapp and redirect the calls of the polling to
that app
So my question is, is there another way for this to be achieved?
Note. I think it might be a cool feature (with the vast ajax use these
days) to have a configuration in the web.xml the excludes various
paths/urls from the session validation checkups
Something like
<session-config>
<session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
<ignore>path1,path2.....</ignore>
</session-config>
Thanks,
Sharon
