[Catalyst] "You have been automatically logged out."

[Chris Carline]

On 2/20/07, J. Shirley <jshirley at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you aren't doing any AJAX interactions, the simple approach is to
> add a JavaScript listener to the onload event that calls the following
> (untested) function:
>
> var activityTimer;
> function setActivityTimeout(time) {
>     if ( activityTimer ) clearTimeout(activityTimer);
>     activityTimer = window.setTimeout( function() {
>         alert("You have been logged out.");
>         document.location = "/";
>     }, time || 600);
> }
>
> On each page unload, this timer will be canceled.  If you do any AJAX
> loads that count as activity, simply call setActivityTimeout() on the
> initiation of the remote event.  And, of course, expire the session on
> the server to match whatever is your client side time out as well.

Why not simply add a meta refresh tag to the top of the template header?

e.g.:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="[% timeout_mins * 60 %];url=[%
c.uri_for('/logout') %]" />