1. You can force a new valid login to log-out any previous or current logins of the same user account.

<That might work, but if I were the user, I do not want to be booted out from my session by someone who accidentally or not, just got my login information>

2. You can track the IP address (or some other machine identifier)

<This wouldn't work since the primary users of my website are students that might access the webpage from different internet cafes>

3. There are always cookies. I personally do not like cookies for session management, I think they are clunky myself.

<I haven't tried this approach. If I grab a cookie through $ENV{HTTP_COOKIE}, if the client closes his browser, would this variable be empty?>

As of the moment, I am setting my sessions to expire after an hour. I could probably try setting them to expire after X number of minutes that it is idle.

Thanks for the suggestions!
Jay Soon

In reply to Re: Re: Re: How should I handle Orphan Sessions? by soon_j
in thread How should I handle Orphan Sessions? by soon_j

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