how to programmatically expire inactive sessions?

[Kirill Kireyev]

Hi, I'm trying to force expirations of inactive sessions in Tomcat. (For some reason, sessions that are inactive longer than timeout don't expire automatically - not sure why?) I can do it just fine, from the Tomcat Manager web app, by clicking the "Expire Sessions" button. I've tried doing it programmatically by using "http://localhost:8080/manager/text/expire?path=/zzz" from a script running on the server:     wget -O /dev/stdout --http-user=xxx --http-password=yyy "http://localhost:8080/manager/text/expire?path=/zzz" (I made sure that Tomcat user xxx has manager-script permissions). I get the following output: K - Session information for application at context path /grok Default maximum session inactive interval 20 minutes <1 minutes: 9 sessions 1 - <2 minutes: 8 sessions 2 - <3 minutes: 11 sessions 3 - <4 minutes: 4 sessions 4 - <5 minutes: 6 sessions 5 - <6 minutes: 5 sessions 6 - <7 minutes: 9 sessions 7 - <8 minutes: 5 sessions 8 - <9 minutes: 11 sessions 9 - <10 minutes: 7 sessions 10 - <11 minutes: 10 sessions 11 - <12 minutes: 7 sessions 12 - <13 minutes: 6 sessions 13 - <14 minutes: 5 sessions 14 - <15 minutes: 9 sessions 15 - <16 minutes: 7 sessions 16 - <17 minutes: 9 sessions 17 - <18 minutes: 6 sessions 18 - <19 minutes: 9 sessions >=20 minutes: 666 sessions but when I check with the Tomcat Web manager app in my web browser, I still see a lot of unexpired sessions (older than inactive interval) - which I can then manually expire, by clicking "Expire Sessions" button in the web app! How can i do this automatically? (And/or why don't they expire automatically anyway)? Thanks, Kirill -- Kirill Kireyev, PhD Founder/CTO instaGrok.com kir...@instagrok.com Twitter: @instaGrok FB: facebook.com/instagrok