Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: How to expire session on the server side?

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Posted by Dave Bauer on

Phew! I that I was going crazy.

        if { $session_expr - [sec_session_renew] < [ns_time] } {

            # LARS: We abandoned the use of sec_login_handler here. This lets people stay logged in forever                                                    
            # if only they keep requesting pages frequently enough, but the alternative was that                                                                
            # the situation where LoginTimeout = 0 (infinte) and the user unchecks the "Remember me" checkbox                                                  
            # would cause users' sessions to expire as soon as the session needed to be renewed                                                                
            sec_generate_session_id_cookie
        }

This code breaks the sec_change_user_auth_token because it never checks the login auth_token if your session has not expired.

So I lose :) But it is a bug in the sec_handler not in sec_change_user_auth_token. I suggest we fix this instead of some magic code that runs on a future request.