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Wes Gamble

2007-Feb-23 07:55 UTC

Automatic logout using AJAX

I''m considering implementing a Javascript timeout function on the
client
that would issue an AJAX-request to the server to do an automatic logout
(by setting session[:user] to nil) after a certain time period (20
minutes or so).  The browser would be redirected to the login screen,
and the user would have to log in again to continue.

Note that I don''t mean invalidate the session, but simply force the
user
to relogin after a certain time.  I plan to remember the last action
requested in the session so that I can redirect back to it after the
user logs in again.

Has anyone implemented something like this, and if so, do you have any
advice?  I have a pretty good idea of how to proceed and I''m pretty
sure
this is doable.  The only concern I have is potential nitty-gritty
details on the client Javascript side of things.

Any reasons that I should not implement this, or other gotchas?

Thanks,
Wes

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Ramon Miguel M. Tayag

2007-Feb-23 08:43 UTC

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Re: Automatic logout using AJAX

I don''t know AJAX too well, but I''m sure you''ll
update this timer
every time the user changes something.  Won''t this be too hard?
You''ll have to put a function like updateTimer() in all JS functions
that may be called to update this.

On 2/23/07, Wes Gamble
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:>
> I''m considering...
>
>...or other gotchas?
>
> Thanks,
> Wes
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