[956] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Apache 1.1.1 & Caching Passwds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Goeke)
Fri Oct 25 15:05:55 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:00:32 -0500
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From: tgoeke@prismrsc.com (Tim Goeke)
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>You could do this with cookies - when you authenticate, send a cookie with
>an expiration date 1 minute in the future. Write a cgi that requests the
>cookie before sending the html page, and if it gets the cookie, sends
>another one with another 1 minute expiration.
>
The problem with cookie expiration is that it is client-time dependent.
Since you can't syncronize every client on the 'Net, the expiration times
have to very long or the some users will have to login a lot and others will
never time out.
The only sure way to do it is to set the server time in a cookie and then
manually "expire" the cookie when the user hits the site. This requires
either a server object (API) or a CGI based site.
-Tim Goeke
-tgoeke@prismrsc.com
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