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Two different session timeouts

Would this work?

function onRequestStart(myPage) {
    if (condition) {
        this.sessionTimeout = CreateTimeSpan(0, 2, 0, 0)
    } else {
        this.sessionTimeout = CreateTimeSpan(0, 0, 1, 0)
    }
}

If someone is logged in, I don't want to log them out, but if a spider comes along, I don't want the spider to tie up session storage for an extended period of time.

Maybe I'm worried about something I don't need to worry about.

Solution

  • I've done this before but not in onRequestStart(). I put it in the pseudo-constructor area of Application.cfc (that is, before any of the method definitions). Apologies for the tag-based syntax:

    <cfset variables.sessionTimeout = createTimeSpan(0,2,0,0) />
<cfif variables.isBot>
    <cfset variables.sessionTimeout = createTimeSpan(0,0,1,0) />
</cfif>
<cfset this.SessionTimeout = variables.sessionTimeout />

    And yes, it does work. I don't know if it would work if you put it inside onRequestStart(). It saves a lot of memory especially if your site gets hit by a lot of bots.