Hi all,

I am trying to get a better understanding of how Shiro does session
management on Google App Engine (a few things seem to be behaving
counter-intuitively), so I'll start by asking some questions:

   1. Does Shiro use the _ah_SESSION entities to manage session persistence
   on GAE?
   2. If so, what is the relationship between the key (name/ID) of the
   _ah_SESSION entity and the value stored in the JSESSIONID cookie?
   3. To put it differently, how does DefaultWebSessionManager know that if
   the JSESSIONID value is X, I have to lookup entity Y in the GAE datastore?

I have set the session-timeout to 1440 (24 hours) in web.xml, but logins
seem to expire before then (cookie life is set to 5 days): if I login now,
do nothing after that, and refresh the page in, say, 13 hours, I am shown
as logged out (depending entirely on Shiro for logins, not doing any other
hanky-panky).

It does seem like the value of the _expires field in the _ah_SESSION
entities is being set to 24 hours from now.

Regards,
Harshdeep S Jawanda

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