Yong How showed how to do this by setting a value in the web.xml configuration file.
Another way to do it is is to make the following method call inside the application (allowing different intervals for different purposes): session.setMaxInactiveInterval (...) where ... is the number of seconds between interactions after which a timeout should occur. For two hours, you'd use 7200. You can set this in the login JSP page. Also, instead of reading the cookie, you might have a look at session.getId(), which should work with cookies or with URL re- writing, and session.isNew(). If I remember correctly, there might have been problems with these in Tomcat 3.x series that were fixed in 4.x. Alan > -----Original Message----- > From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and > reference [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kenny G. > Dubuisson, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, 18 December, 2002 12:11 AM To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: session timeout setting > > > I have a site written in JSP that uses session info to validate user's > sessions. I want to change the default timeout of the session from 60 > mins but I'm not sure what is controlling this or how/where to change > it. Here is more info to help figure this out...if anyone has any > ideas I would greatly appreciate it. > > My initial JSP page has a login which, when validated, sets a cookie > that stores the session ID. Every page thereafter, upon initial load, > checks the current session ID against this cookie and if they don't > match, the user is directed to re-login. My users want a longer > timeout but I'm not sure where to control this (maybe this question is > for the Tomcat list....I just don't know). > -- Alan Meyer AM Systems, Inc. Randallstown, MD USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
