How long before a ' logged in user' is logged out?

Hi,

I am building a website with a password protected section, using DWMX2004's
log-in behaviour.
After there is a certain amount of time of inactivity, the user is
automatically logged out - how long is this, and can I set the the time?

TIA!

Rogier, Rotterdam

depends on your server model - ASP is usally set in global.asp with the
session object like :

<% Session.Timeout=5 %>

default is 20 minutes usually

You do some fancy scripting with session.abandon if you want.

see http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_sessions.asp - an excellent site for a
load of stuff.

PHP you need to use session object again.

RP
"Roger" <rsbos (AT) xs4all (DOT) nl> wrote

Hi,

I am building a website with a password protected section, using
DWMX2004's
log-in behaviour.
After there is a certain amount of time of inactivity, the user is
automatically logged out - how long is this, and can I set the the time?

TIA!

Rogier, Rotterdam

This depends on the length of the session, a setting which is set on the
server. How you change this depends on what server setup you have. If you are
using php for instance you will probably be using cookies to maintain a
session. The length is set by the session.cookie_lifetime setting in the
php.ini file. Hope this helps Ross