> -----Original Message----- > From: Brent Clark [mailto:bclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Mittwoch, 23. November 2005 07:27 > To: Apache > Subject: [users@httpd] htaccess session timeout > > > Hi all > > Would anyone know if its possible to use htaccess with a > session timeout. > Just to be clear, "htaccess" is a mechanism that allows certain directives to be applied to a particular directory just be putting a small file in that directory. Because this is most often used to provide Basic Authentication (password protection) people sometimes think they are equivalent. They're not. You can have a .htaccess file that contains non-Auth directives and you can do Basic Auth without using a .htaccess file. > Basically I would like it so that if a user walks away from > there work station, on returning they have to re login. Regarding your question; This isn't possible with Basic Auth; the browser caches the password and username (the credentials) and then resends them with every subsequent request to the same realm. So you will "stay logged in" indefinately. Having said that, mod_auth_digest (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_digest.html) has a AuthDigestNonceLifetime Directive which allows you to timestamp requests and so expire sessions. Not that mod_auth_digest is a bit experimental and not universally supported by browsers - depending on your application that might or might not matter... The other way to go is to forget about doing the authentication in the HTTP layer and to use cookies. The server can put timestamps on the cookies so that you can keep track of when the client last accessed the realm. Then you can expire the request after a given time. Cookie handling requires a server-sided mechanism (PHP, CGI, ASP, Cocoon etc.) and is non-trivial. Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > If anyone has any tips, advice or URL links, I would be most grateful. > > Kind Regards > Brent Clark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Diese E-mail ist eine private und persönliche Kommunikation. Sie hat keinen Bezug zur Börsen- bzw. Geschäftstätigkeit der SWX Gruppe. This e-mail is of a private and personal nature. It is not related to the exchange or business activities of the SWX Group. Le présent e-mail est un message privé et personnel, sans rapport avec l'activité boursière du Groupe SWX. This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender urgently and then immediately delete the message and any copies of it from your system. Please also immediately destroy any hardcopies of the message. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. The sender's company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of the sender's company. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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