I don't get it from the documentation. Sorry for the dumb question.
How do I create a session whose cookie does not expire when I close the browser?
Still on hunchentoot 0.15.6.
Thanks Jens
I don't get it from the documentation. Sorry for the dumb question.
How do I create a session whose cookie does not expire when I close the browser?
Still on hunchentoot 0.15.6.
There doesn't seem to be a built-in way to do that.
START-SESSION sets a cookie with :EXPIRES NIL, which probably means "when the browser is closed". Define your own START-SESSION to pass a custom timeout.
Leslie
Leslie P. Polzer schrieb:
There doesn't seem to be a built-in way to do that.
START-SESSION sets a cookie with :EXPIRES NIL, which probably means "when the browser is closed". Define your own START-SESSION to pass a custom timeout.
Thanks for the hint. I did it exactly that way and it solved the problem.
Jens
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:06:49 +0100, Jens Teich info@jensteich.de wrote:
Leslie P. Polzer schrieb:
There doesn't seem to be a built-in way to do that.
START-SESSION sets a cookie with :EXPIRES NIL, which probably means "when the browser is closed". Define your own START-SESSION to pass a custom timeout.
Thanks for the hint. I did it exactly that way and it solved the problem.
I would do it a bit differently, but that's a matter of taste. For me, a "session" isn't something that should continue to exist if the user closes the browser or comes back after a week. What I would do in this case (and have done in others) is to give them a long living cookie and automatically open a new session when they come back and the cookie is recognized. That also has the added benefit that whatever is tied to the old session can be cleaned up and doesn't hang around indefinitely.
But, as I said, tastes differ.
Edi.
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