[imp] next user resuming pre. user session......

Rich Lafferty rich@horde.org
Wed, 1 Nov 2000 15:31:09 -0500


On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 03:26:07PM -0500, David A Powicki (dpowicki@oit.umass.edu) wrote:
> 
> > > and 2.2.0 (production).  Using both versions with IE 5.5 on MACs/PCs
> > > and Netscape 4.0/4.7 on MACs/PCs we have discovered that users can
> > > resume previous users sessions if the 1st user CLOSES the browser
> > > and does NOT log out.
> >
> > What do you have in horde/phplib/local.inc for $lifetime?
>  
> We have $lifetime set to 30 minutes so we can timeout sessions.

Aha! That's how long sessions will last, then. There are two sorts of
cookies. Session cookies last until the browser is closed, and aren't
written to disk; the other kind *are* written to disk and have an
explicit expiry time that lives through browser restarts.

   -Rich

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