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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