[dev] Timeouts for idle webmail users?

[Rick Stevens]

Michael Bull wrote:

> At 01:50 PM 08/01/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:47:19PM -0500, Michael Bull wrote:
>> 
>>  > I've been tracing the discussions on idle timeouts.   What is the 
>> best way
>>  > to implement this?  I've been trying to make some changes with 
>> php.ini that
>>  > haven't seemed to work (by setting the session.cookie_lifetime to 900
>>  > seconds, to test).   Should that setting have worked with how 2.3 uses
>>  > sessions with php?  Someone had mentioned about there being the 
>> "hooks" for
>>  > where idle timeouts could be in the imp/horde code, but they hadn't 
>> been
>>  > implemented.... any thoughts on the best approach for this?
>> 
>> I suppose the best way to go about implementing timeouts would be via
>> some shim in the session routines.  There's already a timestamp on the
>> session itself (used by PHP's session garbage collection).  We could
>> try acting on that value to determine if the session has been idle
>> greater than a configurable period of time and log the user out
>> (gracefully) accordingly.
> 
> 
> I'm willing to look into this; where's a good starting spot?

Actually, I'm already working on that along with some custom branding
stuff.  I'm the one who said there's hooks for timeouts, but no
implementation of the timeouts themselves.  I'll get the timeout
stuff done first, then the branding.

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Subject: Re: [dev] Timeouts for idle webmail users?

Quoting Michael Bull <mbull@uoguelph.ca>:

> Where would you suggest to start? (I'm not totally familiar with the 
> session routines; I assume they're part of Horde?)

No... 2.3 uses php4's built in session handling. From our perspective, it mostly
"just works".

-chuck

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Subject: imp 2.3.6 release?

Any objections to cutting loose 2.3.6 as a tarball? I'm not willing to promise 
that APIs are completely stable yet, but I think we're in pretty good shape...

-chuck

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