Bug #75896 [NEW]: All versions of PHP since PHP4

From: php dot chaska at xoxy dot net Operating system: All PHP version: 7.2.2RC1 Package: Session related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:All versions of PHP since PHP4 Description: ------------ The default value of 1440 seconds for session.gc_maxlifetime resulted from a copy-paste error many years ago. It is inane and unsupported by any rationale. It has caused, and continues to cause, innumerable lost or wasted hours of coding, maintenance and debugging efforts on the part of PHP programmers around the world. Please change the default value as shipped in php.ini and as documented, to something which makes any kind of sense. I suggest a value of 3600, or one hour. This is an easily understood value by people, and is a reasonable duration for a session before timeout. There is no factual support for the idea that 24 minutes (1440 seconds) is a good value. There may be arguments for other values -- e.g. 86400 for 1 day. Feel free to research them. Just pick something sane. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75896&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=75896&r=mysqlcfg