Re: FW: NoCatAuth Renewal isn't quite right.

i've had similar problems with the firefox and it's insistance on displaying 
pages in the nocat popup window; i put it down to a combination of window 
focus and webpages that require/use popups for stuff (and firefox stealing 
the next avail 'pop up' window

obviously, if your pop up window misses its oppurtunity to resend the login 
information, your session will time out (bringing all the consequences 
thereof). but i have noticed with some wireless NIC's and AP's, that the 
connection can keep dropping out. maybe this is adding to the problem?

amran

On 7/5/05, Steve Platt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I am a little confused about how our own NoCatAuth setup is working too!
> ;-)
> 
> I'm no longer confident that the renewal process is working properly; some
> users are finding that they keep getting re-captured. One or two are even
> reporting that web pages they browse to (in Firefox) are being displayed 
> IN
> THE LOGIN WINDOW! If that happens I am not surprised if they get 
> disconnected
> ... but why does it happen?
> 
> I am also confused about the IdleTimout option, which seems to be set to 
> 300
> seconds - how does this interact with the LoginTimeout option?
> 
> 
> I have LoginTimeout set to 600 and find that renewals are happening every 
> 450
> seconds, as advertised in the login window. However, is an IdleTimeout of 
> 300
> sensible under these circumstances?
> 
> Also, in the status page, users often show up with negative values for
> "minutes left" - does that mean they have timed out already?
> 
> Anyway, I'll try to answer your question about the pop-up window script.
> 
> To start with the login window contains :-
> 
> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="450; 
> URL=https://.../cgi-bin/login?pass=..
> .
> 
> Later, I find the window source contains :-
> 
> <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5; URL=http://...:5280/?ticket=...
> 
> All other references to "450" in the HTML look the same to me, it's just 
> this
> Content= bit that's changed. I don't know if this helps you Matt?
> 
> Is it stupid to have an IdleTimeout that's less than the loginTimeout?
> Steve
> 
> 
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