in reply to CGI::Session session expiration problems

From looking at the documentation, I see:

So, expire() seems to look at atime(), at least when in "auto-expire" mode. I don't know what that is, but seeing that you've hidden your relevant code quite well, I guess that you're not using "auto-expire" mode or that your description of what you see does not correlate with what happens.

Why would you expect ctime() ever to change for one session?

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Re^2: CGI::Session session expiration problems
by speckled (Novice) on Jan 16, 2009 at 08:29 UTC 
    $s = new CGI::Session("driver:file", undef, {Directory=>'/tmp'});
$s->expire('+15m');

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    What I want is to expire the session if no activity. What I get is: session expires after 15m even if there is activity.

    It expires when atime() - ctime() eq expire() even if the user is alive.

    Any clues?
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      I don't see anything in the documentation that suggests this behaviour. So, maybe print out the three times and debug from there. The ctime of a file cannot be changed (without erasing and recreating the file), at least on unixish filesystems. But maybe CGI::Session never sees your changing atime.

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        print1 of $s->atime(): 1232096086
print1 of $s->ctime(): 1232096013
print1 of $s->expire(): 900

print2 of $s->atime(): 1232096188
print2 of $s->ctime(): 1232096013
print2 of $s->expire(): 900

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