Session Timeout

[axelseaa]

Our default php session time is 3 hours

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session.cache_expire = 180

However, we had a user complain that his session timeout after spending about an hour entering a post. Does serendipity handle this somewhere internally?

[garvinhicking]

Serendipity does not set any session related timings and totally depends on the PHP configured limit. We only use session_start() and no other session options...

Best regards,
Garvin

[d_cee]

Hi Garvin

I've had this same problem too. I've spent an hour or so entering a post and when I've gone to save it I got a message saying I'd entered a wrong user name or password. I found myself back at the log in page and lost all my hour's post.

Dave

[garvinhicking]

Sadly, this is a problem hard to bypass with Serendipity or any PHP application.

Jay Bertrandt is working on an auto-save plugin which can autosave what you entered.

I can only give a tip to occasionally save long entrys in draft. You also do that when writing up longer word files, don't you? So you should apply that in a web-context as well: Save early, save often.

Once you are having the password problem, a little trick helps that works in mostly all web applications: When you get the mesage "Invalid username", Open another browser window or tab, login there, then go back to the original browser window and hit F5/Reload to re-post your entry which is still in the browser's cache.

Also, enabled the "Remember me" login functionality ensures that you can never loose a session!

Regards,
Garvin

[d_cee]

Hi Garvin

I can only give a tip to occasionally save long entrys in draft. You also do that when writing up longer word files, don't you? So you should apply that in a web-context as well: Save early, save often.

I wish I was that organised. I've lost count of the number of times I've lost work through not saving as I go along

Dave