Re: Re: session expired -> how to know if the session is new or old

Thanks for the response. Indeed it seems this is the only way to achieve what I want. It would be nice if the PHP guys would implement such functionality. Catalin "Stuart" <lists@sharedserver.net> wrote in message news:403B7935.3030105@sharedserver.net... > Catalin Trifu wrote: > > I want to redirect my users to a session expired page and not directly > > to > > a blank login page based on wheter this is just a gc colected session. > > In case the user goes to sleep but leaves the browser open and then in > > the > > morning he comes back and does something the browser will send the > > session id he got before sleeping. > > The only way to accomplish this is to keep a persistant cookie updated > with the last time they used a session. Then if someone comes to the > site without a session, check for that cookie and present the > appropriate page. However, this seems like a lot of effort for little > gain to me. > > -- > Stuart