[mod_python] Sessions: Confused: Newbie

Jim,

Thank you - how stupid of me.  It now works as I thought it would.

Is there a default timeout and is there anywhere where best practise for
session timeouts is documented.

I had this daft idea of resetting timeouts, if the browser was still active.

Richard

On 04/02/2008, Jim Gallacher <jpg at jgassociates.ca> wrote:
>
> Make sure you call mySess.save(), otherwise the session is never saved
> and you'll get a new session on every request.
>
> Jim
>
> MCL Systems wrote:
> > I thought I was understanding sessions but the following did not work as
> > I expected.
> >
> > I was expecting the first execution to create a session with a PID of
> > 666 and a Hits Value of 1 and on each refresh of that page in the same
> > browser to increment the hit counter, but the 'is_new' test, returns
> > true every time.  I have tried this on several computers and with
> > different browsers, but always the same result.
> >
> > Where have I gone wrong ?
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > MOD_PYTHON, Apache, PYTHON 2.5
> >
> > Code =====================================
> > from mod_python import Session, util
> >
> > def index(req):
> >     main(req)
> >
> > def main(req):
> >     mySess = Session.Session(req)
> >     if mySess.is_new():
> >         pid = 666
> >         mySess['pid'] = str(pid)
> >         mySess['hits'] = 1
> >         req.write("NEW Session PID: %s <BR>\n" % mySess['pid'])
> >         req.write("Hits: %s <br>\n" % mySess['hits'])
> >     else:
> >         mySess['hits'] +=1
> >         req.write("OLD Session PID: %s <BR>\n" % mySess['pid'])
> >         req.write("Hits: %s <br>\n" % mySess['hits'])
> >
> >
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