Re: (auto) session expire
| From: | Micah Gersten | Date: | Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:55:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: (auto) session expire | ||
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Shiplu wrote:
> This is a very common issue. I searched and found many sites talking
> about this. but no good solution.
> Well the problem is I want to set my session will expire after 10
> minutes of inactivity. Just like an banking site.
> When user is inactive for 10 minutes the session will expire. In fact
> the browser will delete the cookie.
> The browser will delete the cookie because it was told by the server.
> I used these lines
>
> session_cache_expire(APP_SESSION_TIMEOUT);
> session_set_cookie_params(APP_SESSION_TIMEOUT*60);
> ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime", APP_SESSION_TIMEOUT * 60);
> session_start();
>
> It runs at the very beginning of my application. APP_SESSION_TIMEOUT
> has value 10 which is in minutes.
>
> The problem is it works good in FF3. But not in IE.
>
> Any Idea how to resolve it? or any standard way to fix it?
>
>
Why are you setting the session max lifetime on the server to 60 * your
timeout? Set it to your timeout and the server will get rid of the session.
Thank you,
Micah Gersten
onShore Networks
Internal Developer
http://www.onshore.com