On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:06, Edi Weitz wrote:
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:53:32 +0200, Nico de Jager ndj@hivsa.com wrote:
How do I get rid of expired sessions in hunchentoot without deleting valid sessions ("reset-sessions" invalidates and destroys all sessions)?
When looking at the sessions returned by "do-sessions", it seems that expired sessions are only removed once a user tries to reuse the expired session.
Nope. See below.
Excellent. I could not determine this from the documentation.
But what if the user never revisits the site, will his/her expired session remain in the session list? (Or remain at least until the next call to "reset-sessions", which will also delete active sessions). How do I identify expired sessions when traversing the sessions with "do-session", or do I have to manually keep track of this?
Look at *SESSION-GC-FREQUENCY* and SESSION-GC. Does that help? I had plans to export them but somehow haven't done that yet. Do others think this would make sense, at least for the first symbol?
In my case I want to close the session's database connection when the session expires and I was worried that this would only happen as described in my previous post. Having these symbols will give finer control, though. If SESSION-GC is exported then one can also control this per time period. But the current behaviour is adequate for my needs.
Thanks a lot for your quick response. Nico