Hi Dragan, Good question. The timeout parameter determines when to delete the session from disk (or database depending on store). So, if I had an idle browser open for 25 hours, the webpy session engine would delete that data from disk even though your cookie is still valid.
There isn't (currently) a way to handle the cookie timeout time in webpy sessions -- it uses web.setcookie without setting an expiration directly, so the cookie defaults to expiring when the user closes their browser. It wouldn't be too complicated to add in that behavior however. Best, Justin On Sep 20, 5:03 am, Dragan Espenschied <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't it true that I would store a user's log in state in the session? If the > session then cannot survive the browser being closed, it would mean for any > user > to log in each time they visit the web site, which is quite unusual and > annoying. > > Does it mean i need to get the session id and store it in a cookie, retrieve > it > from there and then putting it back into the session? On every access? Even > PHP > has better session management than that :) > > What use does the session 'timeout' parameter serve then? > > Maybe I am getting something wrong here? > > Bests, > Dragan > > Am 17.09.2011 18:38, schrieb FM: > > > Nothing is wrong. Session cookies are meant to be expired when the browser > > is > > closed. It's not web.py specific, it's the general rule. I think what you're > > looking for is cookies. By using cookies, you could set expire time to 5 > > years. > > >http://webpy.org/cookbook/cookies > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "web.py" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/webpy/-/6M2G_oLDSHYJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en. > > --http://noobz.cc/http://digitalfolklore.org/http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en.
