Re: [PHP4BETA] Session vars in /tmp/sess_*: how long? how removed?

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:43:42 +0100, Sascha Schumann <sascha@schumann.cx> said: Sascha> Do you mean application variables? If you really mean session Sascha> variables, the following paragraphs apply: Sascha> Session: The period of time a user interacts with a web site Sascha> incessantly. When a user connects, if they have no session variable $Userid I have them authenticate then session_register(Userid). I check this each time they return to the application to ensure it's instantiated so folks can't steal identies and such. The application tends to be long duration, as it is used to upload large files (e.g. 50MB) sometimes from users on 28.8 modem lines. What I'm noticing is that after authenticating, session_register()ing, they do the upload but by the time the upload completes the PHP can no longer find their session variable. It appears PHP or Apache has blown away the /tmp/sess_* file which maintains the session variables. Sascha> A session object is automatically deleted, when the session Sascha> ends. The assumption that a session object should last Sascha> forever is wrong. How does it know when a session ends? I do have a "logout" feature which removes the session variables and such, but if they don't run this, presumably their session state should stay on the server as /tmp/sess_* files forever. But they're not: there are a finite number of such files so something is removing them periodically. I don't know what does this and I guess that's the beast I'm looking for. Thanks for any pointers!