R: [mod_python] session.last_accessed() ?

I want to avoid incorrectly announcing "session expired" to truly new
users.  In the case of a new user I'd rather say something like "welcome
new user" or give extra help with their first login attempt.

For now I'm using pysqlite (so cool!) to setup a "hits" table on disk. 
I now keep track of the number of hits for each remote IP addr.  I check
the table for each hit.  If I get an IP address that's not in the table
then I add it and treat that session as a new user.  Any other time I
see a new session I treat it as an expired session.

I think it's interesting that you say you get a new session if apache is
restarted,  I don't see that behavior.  Maybe that's because my sessions
are being stored in a dbm file.  My sessions only expire due to timeout
which is good for me.

Thanks for your response,
John



On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 03:46, Manera, Villiam wrote:
> I'm using session since 5 month in production environment without problem
> as follow:
> 
> 1) login   ---> new session,timeout=xxx
> 2) for any other access from this user I tested is_new() that become tru
> only for timeout expired or 
> restart of apache (or ... bug in our programs). So the only message to the
> user is : timeout expired
> 
> why the need to distinguish from new and expired?
> 
> Villiam 
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: mod_python-bounces at modpython.org
> [mailto:mod_python-bounces at modpython.org]Per conto di John Mudd
> Inviato: mercoledì 31 marzo 2004 22.02
> A: Gregory (Grisha) "Trubetskoy
> Cc: mpMailList
> Oggetto: Re: [mod_python] session.last_accessed() ?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I started to add my own time stamp and then realized that even that
> won't solve my original problem.  
> 
> What I really want to know if whether a new session object was created
> because (1) there was never a session for this client before or (2) the
> previous session has since expired.  I can tell if a session object is
> new thanks to the is_new() method but not whether an old session
> expired.  If I know then I can tell the client user why they have to
> login again (e.g. the session expired).
> 
> John
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:52, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
> > This is a bug clearly... I suppose a workaround would be to store your own
> > date until we have this fixed.
> > 
> > Grisha
> > 
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, John Mudd wrote:
> > 
> > > What good is session.last_accessed() ?
> > >
> > > It seems to return the time that I created the session object or last
> > > read it from disk.  Which tells me nothing of interest.
> > >
> > > I'd like to how long since the session was previously (if ever) saved to
> > > disk.  Is there a way to get that?
> > >
> > > John
> > >
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