Hi, Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 1:59:11 PM, you wrote:
JWH> Okay. I think I thought you were the original poster. How do you know JWH> it's returning "stale" data, though? If the cookie is valid, and there JWH> is still a session file (or data in memory), then why is it stale or JWH> expired. Maybe I'm just missing something here. If it's expired because JWH> you think it's too old, then you track your own timestamps and do your JWH> own cleanup. Is that what you're saying? Yes exactly, common problem is someone logs in but doesn't log out and the session is open to everyone, session timeout is supposed to help prevent these cases or at least reduce the chance. But of course the main use of session timeout is to frustrate developers who take more than 40 mins to suss out the next bit of code .... -- regards, Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php