Re: Session length??

Which servlet container are you using?


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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Seaver
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:44 PM
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> Subject: Re: Session length??
>
>
> Ive narrowed down the behaviour that is giving me the null
> pointer here.
>
> What happens is that I submit a job id, and it reloads the
> same page after having stored the job id in a bean.  The same
> bean then gets all the appropiate results, and stores a link
> to each result in a javascript-enabled button, as well as
> storing the results in an array in the session.
>
> When a button is clicked, the appropiate file is recalled
> from the array in the session, and the file is used in the
> resulting viewer window.
>
> What is going wrong is that if, once Ive submitted the job
> id, I wait for too long, when I finally click on one of the
> result buttons, the session attribute has expired.  This even
> happens when I set the maxInactiveInterval to -1 as suggested below.
>
> Anyone?
> Thanks
> Sam
>
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> >From: Gokul Singh <[email protected]>
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> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[email protected]] On
> > > Behalf Of Sam Seaver
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:49 PM
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> > > Subject: Session length??
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I have a JSP file that sets the session length to 0, i read
> > > somewhere that this would mean the session would only expire when
> > > the browser window is closed.
> >
> ><sniped>
> >
> >Here is the extract from the javadocs for HttpSession
> >
> ><from api docs>
> >setMaxInactiveInterval
> >public void setMaxInactiveInterval(int interval)Specifies
> the time, in
> >seconds, between client requests before the servlet container will
> >invalidate this session. A negative time indicates the
> session should
> >never timeout.
> >Parameters:
> >interval - An integer specifying the number of seconds
> ></from api docs>
> >
> >I believe you are setting the timeout to zero, you are actually
> >invalidating the session. Try to use a -ve value for the
> timeout. All
> >session expire when the browser windows are closed. The time out
> >functionality is to make the sessions and related data expire on the
> >server side. It would not be a good idea not to have a
> session timeout,
> >as after sometime, the server will slowdown and crash because of
> >hanging sessions.
> >
> >
> >
> >Rgds,
> >Gokul
> >
> >
> >
> > > anyone?
> > > S
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