Re: Session length??

I'm using Apache Tomcat, if that's what you're asking, Tomcat 4.1.12.



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>Which servlet container are you using?
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> > Java Servlet API Technology.
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam Seaver
> > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:44 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > 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
> >
> > "JC Rules"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Gokul Singh <[email protected]>
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> > >Subject: Re: Session length??
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> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java
> > > > Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[email protected]] On
> > > > Behalf Of Sam Seaver
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:49 PM
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > 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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