>>> Message UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9/24/99 3:15:30 PM >>>
>Is it good practice to allow a session to naturally terminate after
the
>default 30 minutes of inactivity, or should I implement a manual
>termination? The system would only have a few users logged in at any
one
>time, maybe 20 or 30 at most.
It's best to provide some means of logging out... session timeouts
need to be there because with the web you cannot force people to log
out.
They might not want to click the little "logout" button.
In fact, on the system I work on, it seems to be against many of the
users' religons to click on the logout button. Something to do with
the colour turquoise perhaps...
It doesn't really matter how many users... it's more a question of
how heavy the resource load is per user.
If you have 20 users each with an entire copy of a 40Gb database in
their session this might not run too well on a lower-powered server.
/8->
So the answer is: yes it is good practice to provide a log out, but
no, your users are unlikely to ever use it.
Nic Ferrier
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