[mod_python] session.last_accessed() ?

Yep, I'm going with your second option for now.  It just seems like a
lot of db hits for something that the Session constructor probably
already has access to.

Thanks,
John


On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 16:13, Bill Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:02, John Mudd wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Hmmm you could store a cookie with a value of "has logged in before" or
> go with a "Your session may have expired or you have not logged in using
> this browser before".
> 
> Or if you store user data somewhere (some sort of DB) you might have a
> flag that indicates if they have logged in before and act accordingly as
> well.
> 
> Just some thoughts.
>