On 20 March 2011 11:19, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > sol myr wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We have a Servelts/JSP application Tomcat6. >> Our javascripts issues automatic, periodic polling requests (Ajax and >> Comet), in order to keep the view up-to-date. >> Unfortunately this prevents sessions from timing out... >> >> Is there a way to tell Tomcat that some URL shouldn't affect session >> timeouts? >> Namely if for the last 30 minutes, the browser requested nothing but >> "http://server/autoRefresh.do"; , then Tomcat should assume the user went >> away from the computer, and kill the session. >> > You may have to explain the logic of this a bit better, because on the face > of it, it makes no sense. > Presumably, if you create a session, it is because the application needs a > session (aka, needs some information to be preserved between individual > requests of the same user/browser). > Then why would you want it to time out ?
This is the sort of behaviour one wants for online banking - the session should be logged out if the user does not do anything for a while, even though the page may be doing background requests. > And if you don't need a session, then why do you create one ? > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
