Friday, July 15th, 2005
Update User’s Session with Ajax
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His article goes through the Ajaxian code, and both server side pieces.
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The purpose of session time-outs are for security reasons, so that an active session id is killed with a certain period of inactivity incase the local machine is hijacked or so that the session is not intercepted. Extending the session just by pressing ‘ok’ and using Ajax to renew it sort of defeats the purpose of the timeout – after a session timeout the user should have to re-authenticate.