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ahmahmahm
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:32 am    Post subject: Make the session timeout longer? Reply with quote

Hi, love Gixen so far. Would be nice if the session timeout was a bit (a lot?) longer. I'm not sure how long it is now, but, well, however long it is, it's too short. Smile

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think its an hour at the moment... So that means you want to leave yourself on the snipes page for more than an hour without doing anything?

It takes (admitedly a very small amount of) system resources to hold on to that session, and usually they dont get freed up when someone just closes their browser while logged on (I'm not certain but thats been the case with other sites taht I have worked on)..

With that in mind I personally think that to conserve system resources for the benefit of all users, if I don't do anything for an hour, its fair enough to have to log in again.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

System resources are not a problem at all - it's security. I don't want active session ids in the database indefinitely.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If it really is an hour (I said I didn't know... Smile ), then that's fine. Perhaps a cookie to remember my username for speeding up the login then? Smile

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hm, I don't like that either, in case you access it from a public computer... Unless if I put a checkbox "remember my username"... But I'd like to hear more users asking for it first...
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

firefox remembers my username and password anyway, just click on login
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

samhale123 wrote:
firefox remembers my username and password anyway, just click on login

That's when you use "save password" feature of Firefox (not good for public computers also).
You can do the same with gixen if required.

Having username remembered is a good thing generally, having your password remembered is much more scary.
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