Thanks for the clarification, Justin! I filed an issue and hope it will be changed. https://github.com/webpy/webpy/issues/99 Bests, Dragan
Am 21.09.2011 02:30, schrieb Justin Davis: > 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/ > -- 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.
