I think he means that the session is removed from the server, but the sesion
ID (cookie) was not set to expire...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niral Trivedi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 10:09
> To: Tobias Hoellrich
> Cc: Adam Cassar; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: cleaning old Apache::Session's
>
>
> Tobias,
>
> What do you exactly mean by line 'Internally the session will expire
> after 30 minutes.'???
>
> Is it something internal to Apache::Session or you have it
> programmed on
> custom basis or what???
>
> Niral
>
> Tobias Hoellrich wrote:
> >
> > At 09:26 AM 6/2/00 +1000, Adam Cassar wrote:
> > >I was wondering how people are clearing out old Apache::Session's
> > >
> > >No timestamp is used on the fields used by
> Apache::Session, so how do
> > >we clear the old sessions?
> > >
> > >I am not talking about the delete() method to remove a
> session, as that
> > >presumes that a user will always leave your site via
> pre-defined access
> > >points.
> > >
> >
> > Adam,
> >
> > nobody stops you from adding a timestamp :-)
> >
> > mysql> describe sessions;
> > +-----------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> > | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
> > +-----------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> > | id | varchar(16) | | MUL | | |
> > | modtime | timestamp(14) | YES | | NULL | |
> > | a_session | blob | YES | | NULL | |
> > +-----------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> > 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> >
> > For every access to a session entry mysql will
> automatically set the first
> > timestamp field in a row to the current time. We run a
> cronjob every 15
> > minutes, which does a:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -pxxxxx -uxxxx sessions << EOSQL
> > delete from sessions where time_to_sec(now()) -
> time_to_sec(modtime) >
> > 60*60;
> > EOSQL
> >
> > to clear any session entry older than one hour. Internally
> the session wil
> > expire after 30 minutes.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> > Tobias
>
