RE: Re[2]: [PHP] How to handle "so called" expired sessions??

> Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 4:01:07 AM, you wrote: > >> Ive just been getting myself deep into using sessions. > >> Sessions are working as it should except for one condition. > >> Say I log into the site, and the session is started, and I don't do > >> anything for the next 30 mins, then go back to the site. > >> Im temporarily logged out, but because the session cookie is still > JWH> good, > >> the next page load logs me back in. > >> How do the people who use sessions handle this type of scenario?? > > JWH> Whether your logged back in or not is dependant on your program. Once > JWH> you are gone for over X minutes, your session file is deleted. So, > even > JWH> though the cookie is still good, the session will not have any data. > JWH> What's usually done is to check for a certain session value, like > JWH> $_SESSION['logged_in'] and if it's present, then continue, otherwise > JWH> force the user to log back in again. > > JWH> ---John Holmes... > > Not quite that simple as the cleanup proccess may not have run and the > data is > still sitting there, I use msession so I am not sure if the normal session > stuff > will return expired data after it expires and before it is > deleted....msession > does so I hacked it to cleanup if expired data is requested. Okay, so what's your question? The cookie and data is still there, but it's expired? How? As far as I know it's not expired until it is deleted. ---John Holmes...