Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: session handler auto log out Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:31:58 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4ECA60DE.6070301@arnowelzel.de> References: <11984037.1120.1321742991368.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prlm15> <4ECA5B14.5020200@arnowelzel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dd4uQGf4fHOQcq7/hg1u1Q"; logging-data="6481"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18BgOZfACijdSWJNonsQmEWl4/HsL4y4JM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:47Gjz1Q1xpahhnR2VDRz9ZkeAkE= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.php:3841 Jerry Stuckle, 2011-11-21 15:13: > On 11/21/2011 9:07 AM, Arno Welzel wrote: >> DavidB, 2011-11-19 23:49: >> >>> Is there a way to model a session handler to auto logout after a specified >>> period of time without refreshing the page? Something similar to a bank >>> website that auto logs me out and redirects me to another page. >> >> If you want to force the client to redirect the user to another page as >> soon as the session on the *server* times out you must do periodically >> checks on the client e.g. using AJAX. >> >> > > Which is not what the op wants. But both Denis and myself already > pointed this out two days ago. What's your point? Using AJAX is not "refreshing the page". You just said "needs a request" and AJAX is a way to do a request. -- Arno Welzel http://arnowelzel.de http://de-rec-fahrrad.de