Hi Alex, > On Jul 18, 2019, at 6:55 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > You should never use 'send in time' or 'wait with messages' in LCServer. > > Each http request starts up your LC server script anew - and you need that > request to be handled and the server-instance shut down as quickly as > possible. And the next http request will start up another, entirely separate, > instance; so you need to be storing some status info between requests. > > If a user doesn't do anything on the site for a few minutes, then you can use > a flow something (vaguely) like : > > (at start of the script): > > - check if user is logged in (if not, prompt them to login / register / …)
I already check if the user is logged in so that part isn’t an issue. > > - check a database entry for when they were last active (up to you whether > that's per-user, per user/per-IP address, or per-some-cookie, or ...) > > - if time-since-last-action is too long - log them out, and as appropriate, > either > a. apologise :-), and go to login screen > b. return a "not logged in" error > > - if it is still within time, then update the "last active" database entry > > - then do the rest of the current request I was hoping there was some global server value I could check or if there was an LC message like “on Idle” that would work. Perhaps setting a session variable and the sessionLifetime to a particular duration. When the variable expires log the show a sorry message due to timeout and have the next button shown with the message log them out. The following is a link to the javascript stuff I had referred to before. I just want a clean LC way to do the same thing. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9564602/how-to-know-browser-idle-time?noredirect=1&lq=1 Thanks, Rick _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
