[Catalyst] Session expiry per user

[Matt Lawrence]

Alexandre Jousset wrote:
>     Hello list,
>
>     I've problems to set session expiry time per user.
>
>     My goal is to have a default expiry time of "until you quit the 
> browser" unless the user logs in and select a checkbox to have the 
> site "remember" her (i.e. set expiry time to 1 year).
>
>     I use the following plugins for session management :
>
> Session Session::State::Cookie Session::Store::DBI
>
>     I've looked at the docs and I've only found a way to set expiry 
> time in MyApp.pm, and even with this I don't know how to set it for 
> "until you quit the brower". If I put 0 the session expires immediately.
>
>     To set the longer expiry time, I try:
>
> $c->config->{session}{expires} = 31536000 if 
> $c->req->param('remember_me');

I think that will make the cookie expire on the 1st January 1971. Try 
"+31536000".

I have a feeling that an undef expiry will result in a session cookie, 
based on nothing more than guesswork and superstition.


Matt