Found the issue ... my apologies for wasting ppls time. A colleague had added a setMaxInactiveInterval statement in another section of the code which was overriding the web.xml value. Worse was that he'd set it for 30000 thinking it was supposed to be in ms.
My apologies all and thanks Yoav for looking into it. PJ On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:00, Peter Johnson wrote: > Yoav, > > Thanks for replying, > > long timeLeft = session.getLastAccessedTime() + > session.getMaxInactiveInterval() * 1000 - System.currentTimeMillis(); > > PJ > > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 22:54, Shapira, Yoav wrote: > > Hi, > > How are you checking the time remaining for a session? > > > > Yoav Shapira > > Millennium Research Informatics > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Peter Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:24 AM > > >To: Tomcat Users List > > >Subject: <session-timeout> is out by factor of 100? > > > > > >Hi, > > > > > >Is anyone successfully using the web.xml session timeout configuration > > >with Tomcat 5.0.25? Testing seems to indicate that this setting is out > > >by a factor of 100 however using session.setMaxInactiveInterval seems > > to > > >yield the desired result. > > > > > >E.g. Printing the time remaining (in ms) in a session when using: > > >session.setMaxInactiveInterval(180) // 3 min in seconds > > > ---> presents 179226 == ~3 min > > >however, setting > > ><session-config> > > > <session-timeout>5</session-timeout> > > ></session-config> > > > ---> presents 29992101 == ~500min > > > > > >Thanks, > > >PJ > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, > > and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. > > This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and > > may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are > > not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your > > computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
