Add Keep Alive (ping server) to function when user chooses to stay logged in. about jquery-idletimeout HOT 4 CLOSED

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I also wanted to let you know that your plugin works with nbubna/store (store2) https://github.com/nbubna/store
I just had to remove the store.enabled check. I was forced to do this because we are already using store2 on our site and the APIs overlap.

Thanks again for your hard work ☺

From: JillElaine [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 11:25 AM
To: JillElaine/jquery-idleTimeout
Cc: Roy Harding
Subject: Re: [jquery-idleTimeout] ping server when user is chooses to stay logged in. (#7)

Patch accepted. :-)

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As to the sessionKeepAlive timer, if I understand correctly, you suggest that the sessionKeepAlive ping be sent to the server whenever the 'Stay logged in' function runs (Click of the button on the Warning dialog). The problem is that, if the user is active, the Warning dialog will not appear, and the 'Stay logged in' function will never run.

If a sessionKeepAlive ping is never sent to the server, the session MAY timeout on the server, unbeknownst to the user and unbeknownst the javascript running on the client's browser. Session server-side timeouts are rather unpredictable: garbage collection of 'old' sessions happens randomly since it's resource intensive.

Having said that, it does make sense to set the default sessionKeepAlive timer to something rather large, like 10 mins. Some default server session timeouts: Tomcat=30 mins, MS IIS=20 mins.

And will also update the documentation in regards to the sessionKeepAlive pinger.

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Task complete. Closes issue #7.

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