You may want to look into SessionListener/Session event Listener. I am not sure what the issue is with regards to the timeout, setting timeout to 30 means the session should expire in 30 minutes. The timeout is really all you should need as far as wanting to prevent idle sessions, after all that is what it is for.
On 10/28/06, Oren Livne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear All: I'm running tomcat 5.5.20 on a redhat 8 linux server (Linux ruready.utah.edu 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Aug 17 18:00:32 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux). My web application manages its own session pool. Every time a user logs into the site, a session is created and stored in a synchronized map of user ID, session ID. When a user logs out, the session is invalidated and removed from the map. When tomcat destroys a session, the user is logged out. The problem: some times users log in and then close their browser window (at least I assume so), but tomcat never destroys their session. The session-timeout parameter is set to 30 in web.xml. I tried it with session-timeout = 1 on my windows development box, and then it worked -- tomcat did destroy the session after it's been idle for 1 minute. Is it a known linux bug, or is it something in my code? Is there a way to force sessions to be destroyed without writing a thread to look for idle sessions every some time and invalidate them? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Oren -- ====================================================================== Oren Livne, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor of Mathematics RUReady Software Architect Academic Outreach and Continuing Education 1901 East South Campus Dr., Room 2197-D University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9399 Tel : (801) 581-6831 Cell: (801) 631-3885 Fax: (801) 585-5414 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://ruready.net/oren ====================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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