Charles Sabourdin wrote:
> --- "Craig R. McClanahan"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Ivan E. Markovic" wrote:
> >
> > > Quick question. How long are sessions inside
> > Apache/Tomcat valid for?
> > > In all the Servlet documentation I have it is
> > stated that session
> > > duration is server specific. So I checked the
> > Tomcat and Apache docs
> > > and could find no indicator as to what that
> > duration was. Anyone able
> > > to enlighten me?
> > >
> >
> > You can set the default timeout in your web.xml
> > file, using the <session-config>
> > element (see the spec, or one of the books or
> > articles that talk about the
> > web.xml format).
> >
> > If you do not specify it, Tomcat defaults to 30
> > minutes.
> >
> > Note that you can also change the timeout on a
> > session dynamically, by calling
> > the session.setMaxInactiveInterval() method.
> >
> > > I v a n ...
> >
> > Craig McClanahan
> but in that <session-config> tag what is the unit ?
> secondes, minutes?
>
Download the spec, and you will see that it's defined in minutes. You are going
to need the spec anyway to get the syntax and placement of this element correct.
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html
Craig
