[Catalyst] noob question about session timeouts

[Matt S Trout]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:00:13PM -0500, Cliff Green wrote:
> When a session expires in the app I'm putting together, the user is sent 
> back to the login screen at the next request, as expected.  What I'd 
> like to do is stuff something like 'Session Expired' into 
> $c->stash->{error_msg} and have it displayed, letting the user know what 
> just happened.
> 
> I've tried things like
>  unless ($c->session_expires) {
>     $c->stash->{error_msg} = 'Session Expired!';
>  }
> 
> in, variously, Root.pm and Login.pm but of course it doesn't work.
> 
> Alternatively, it would be nice to know how to use something along the 
> lines of
>  $c->stash->{error_msg} = $c->session_delete_reason;

That accessor is only set if the session was deleted this request, so why
not just do

if ($c->session_delete_reason) {

?

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