Having read the irc log a few times I'm still not clear what is meant to happen.
I can't see under what circumstances notifyFinish will return a Failure. John Aherne On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Cory Benfield <c...@lukasa.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 17 Oct 2016, at 17:27, John Aherne <johnahe...@rocs.co.uk> wrote: > > > > OK. Thanks for the link. > > > > That explains what is going on although I'm not too clear on the details. > > > > What I was looking to do was set up an http session and when the browser > went away use that a the trigger to expire the session. > > > > I didn't just want to set some arbitrary time frame to expire the > session but if they just exited the browser or browser tab I could use > notifyFinish to pick up the lost connection and I could then expire the > session. > > > > I have'nt spotted any other info re sessions that would help with this. > > The biggest issue here is that “when the browser goes away” is not a > well-defined condition that the server can observe. Browsers will attempt > to keep connections open as long as they can, meaning that connection > termination may not be observed until quite some time later. > > Is there any reason that standard cookies (ones that expire at the end of > a browser session) + explicit log out aren’t a suitable approach here? > > Cory > > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > -- *John Aherne* *www.rocs.co.uk <http://www.rocs.co.uk>* 020 7223 7567
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