Duplicate of https://github.com/webpy/webpy/issues/61 ...
Am 21.09.2011 10:42, schrieb Dragan Espenschied: > 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.
