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From: David Buck
Subject: IRTC session timeouts
Date: 30 Jun 2009 20:10:55
Message: <4a4aa98f$1@news.povray.org>
I'm getting a few report of session timeouts while submitting.  I've 
increased the timeouts to 30 minutes.  That should help out.

David Buck


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: IRTC session timeouts
Date: 1 Jul 2009 14:22:40
Message: <4a4ba970@news.povray.org>
"David Buck" <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote in message 
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> I'm getting a few report of session timeouts while submitting.  I've 
> increased the timeouts to 30 minutes.  That should help out.

Why does it need to time-out at all?
It's not like there's a major risk of a security violation if someone else 
uses my PC and it's still logged in is there.

It took me more than 30 mins to decide what I wanted to write in the 
description section (I was watching TV & cooking, not just writing!).

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Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: IRTC session timeouts
Date: 1 Jul 2009 15:35:00
Message: <web.4a4bb9e419ad479b5def94260@news.povray.org>
"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote:
> "David Buck" <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote in message
> news:4a4aa98f$1@news.povray.org...
> > I'm getting a few report of session timeouts while submitting.  I've
> > increased the timeouts to 30 minutes.  That should help out.
>
> Why does it need to time-out at all?
> It's not like there's a major risk of a security violation if someone else
> uses my PC and it's still logged in is there.

Seconded.


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: IRTC session timeouts
Date: 1 Jul 2009 15:39:27
Message: <4a4bbb6f@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:22:40 +0100, Tek wrote:

> "David Buck" <dav### [at] simberoncom> wrote in message
> news:4a4aa98f$1@news.povray.org...
>> I'm getting a few report of session timeouts while submitting.  I've
>> increased the timeouts to 30 minutes.  That should help out.
> 
> Why does it need to time-out at all?
> It's not like there's a major risk of a security violation if someone
> else uses my PC and it's still logged in is there.
> 
> It took me more than 30 mins to decide what I wanted to write in the
> description section (I was watching TV & cooking, not just writing!).

At a guess, it's not a cookie timeout, but a connection-to-the-server 
timeout.

Jim


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From: Christian Froeschlin
Subject: Re: IRTC session timeouts
Date: 1 Jul 2009 17:13:54
Message: <4a4bd192$1@news.povray.org>
Tek wrote:

> Why does it need to time-out at all?

Usually because the server allocates some resources for
each session and needs to get rid of them at some point even
if the user goes away without logging out explicitely.


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From: Christian Froeschlin
Subject: Re: IRTC session timeouts
Date: 1 Jul 2009 17:17:22
Message: <4a4bd262$1@news.povray.org>
Tek wrote:

> It took me more than 30 mins to decide what I wanted to write in the 
> description section (I was watching TV & cooking, not just writing!).

Oh and if you happen to use Firefox have a look at

   https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/6984

Great AddOn ;)


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From: David Buck
Subject: Re: IRTC session timeouts
Date: 1 Jul 2009 19:17:01
Message: <4a4bee6d$1@news.povray.org>
Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> Tek wrote:
> 
>> Why does it need to time-out at all?
> 
> Usually because the server allocates some resources for
> each session and needs to get rid of them at some point even
> if the user goes away without logging out explicitely.

This is exactly the case.  Every session uses memory space on the 
server.  Timeouts are the only effective way of getting rid of that 
space.  The problem is made even worse with the IRTC site because if you 
aren't logged in, every page on the web site creates a new session. 
This is the only way to get the bookmarkable URL's.  These sessions will 
only disappear on timeouts.


David Buck


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From: Tek
Subject: Re: IRTC session timeouts
Date: 3 Jul 2009 14:30:24
Message: <4a4e4e40@news.povray.org>
"Christian Froeschlin" <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote in message 
news:4a4bd262$1@news.povray.org...
> Oh and if you happen to use Firefox have a look at
>
>   https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/6984
>
> Great AddOn ;)

Awesome! Thanks so much for that :)

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com


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From: Christian Froeschlin
Subject: Re: IRTC session timeouts
Date: 7 Jul 2009 17:46:52
Message: <4a53c24c$1@news.povray.org>
David Buck wrote:

> space.  The problem is made even worse with the IRTC site because if you 
> aren't logged in, every page on the web site creates a new session. This 
> is the only way to get the bookmarkable URL's.  These sessions will only 
> disappear on timeouts.

maybe it's possible to have a different timeout for for these
sessions (= not logged in). After all, no lengthy forms need to
be filled out when just browsing the site.


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