[Catalyst] Session problems with IE and cookies - workaround

[Valentin Tumarkin]

I see you point, and I also tried experimenting with
"extend_session_expires". However it did not seem to help. Did you
manage to get it to replace the cookies in the client ?

In ether case - auto-extending the session is only good as long as the
client keeps accessing your server. Sometime, sooner or later the
session will expire (and for security reasons you probably will not
want to extend the session then).

My workaround is actually a handler for a situation when a session is
totally expired, with a few lines added to kill the old session.

P.S.: The relevant part of my project had to rely on $c->session,
rather then $c->user objects. Somehow $c->user -based code handles
session expiry much better.

On 3/29/07, Dmitry <dmitry at bis.ru> wrote:
>  VT> My workaround will:
>  VT> 1) Delete the old session
>  VT> 2) Create a new session
>  VT> 3) Return a dummy page, along with a new cookie and a redirect to
>  VT> site's main page
> There is easier workaround - just call $c->reset_session_expires on login.
> Why nor reset_session_expires neither extend_session_expires are not
> documented
> if they are public?
>
>
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