You are correct. I check to see if the session still exists in the table. When a session times out, the record is deleted. The record is also deleted if the user clicks "Logout". However, the users rarely if ever "Logout". When we first started using this, we had no session timeouts becuase we took for granted that the users would do as instructed and click "Logout" when they were done. OK, OK, so that was stupid on our part but we live, we learn, we improve, or we die. During the 4 months that we didn't have session timeouts, we never saw a duplicate session and still haven't. I know that doesn't mean that it never happened, but so far so good.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Sessions with perl cgi by ChrisR
in thread Sessions with perl cgi by wolis

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