I put 15 minutes expiry/session cookie age in my django app 1) I logged into my application 2) I went to some page. 3) Left that page open in browser. 4) Came back after 16 minutes and clicked on a link on that open page 5) I was thrown to login home page. As a user it is very confusing, did I do something wrong or did app fail? what happened here. Explicit message " logged out due to inactivity" helps.
Most bank and broker sites give explicit message " You have been logged out due to inactivity " On Feb 11, 7:53 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 19:50 -0800, ydjango wrote: > > Thanks, I will read the documentation. > > Hopefully it will tell me how to differentiate between user who logged > > out because they clicked on logout and users who got logged out > > because of inactivity and expiry. > > There is no difference between those users. They are both not simply not > authenticated. > > If you are wanting to do something special when a user selects "log > out", then you should write your own logout view and do it there. > However, again, I would question if you're solving the right problem > here. What you seemed to be asking to do (and this is the first time > you've mentioned different behaviour for those who actively logged out) > is saying that when a user visits a page that requires them to be logged > in (and they aren't logged in), they should be redirected to a login > page. Why does it matter whether they logged out or were timed out in > that case? In both situations, they need to be logged in to view that > page, so the same response is appropriate and suitable. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
