In My application login and transactions after login are implemented using Mobilefirst 8.0. And I have implemented challenge handler and security test with 60 sec timeout for authentication. My application is getting a session timeout after 60 sec from the time of login even while doing transaction also.
How to reset session timeout for each request to server?
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Environment Spring Boot, Spring Session, Spring Security
Hi, I ma implementing session timeout in my spring boot application using the server.servlet.session.timeout=60 . Which means session must timeout after 1 minute of inactivity. Which is not happening. One of the causes would be that my application sends a HTTP GET request (/getCustomerCount() )every 1 second from the webpage (javascript scheduled).
Question : Does HTTP get request converts an IDLE session to be an active session which prevents the sessions to timeout.
If so, then how shall I timeout my application. I want the session idle/active logic to ignore the every second request /getCustomerCount(). Adn if user doesn't perform any task (other than per second request) then consider the session as IDLE and time it out after 60 seconds.
Is there any way in Spring Session, that session manager ignores a particular request while marking a session active and idle ?
I need to set absolute session timeout (timeout the session regardless the user is active or not) in websphere liberty profile server for an application?
How do I do that ? I know inactivity timeout setting. But it is not the requirement, absolute timeout is the requirement.
Either you JAAS enable your application, activate the Lightweight Third Party Authentication (LTPA) and set the absolute time, regardless activity.
The default expiration time is 2 hours and is an absolute time, not based on user activities. After the 2 hours, the token expires and the user must log in again to access the resource. Liberty: Authentication
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Just set the global session timeout in liberty to x seconds (which is for inactivity), and in your web application for each communication front it with a filter or something similar that checks the session getCreationTime and invalidate it if it exceeds x seconds. Also some good guide and reading here
In this case you will have session invalidity for both inactive and active users.
I'm using Xamarin to connect to Azure Mobile Services on Android and iOS. When we have a good mobile connection, everything is fine. However, when the mobile connection is slow the default timeout of 60 seconds has a negative impact on our users because it may take up to that long to indicate to the user that their action has not completed.
My question is how to decrease the timeout for InvokeAPI and MobileServiceClient?
You have to override the default timeout of Android and iOS HttpClient.
It's not possible to set the timeout in your shared code (PCL).
I have set the session timeout in my WebSphere as 3 Mins (Consider.Actual timeout I have set is 30 mins).I have kept my application open and just moving my mouse over the J2EE application and making some keypress which will not submit any pages.Even after 3 mins, the session of the application is retained.I need to confirm how the session is retained when some mouse move / keypress happens ? No request is being sent to server or no page submissions has been done.
The session timeout for my application is maintained only in server.
Thanks.
This sounds like it's due to WebSphere's use of the LTPA token for authentication. In summary:
When the web session expires a users credentials are not expired (you
are not forced to re-login). This is due to the WebSphere
implementation of LTPA tokens and more info on this is covered in the
IBM documentation.
When the LTPA token expires the users credentials
are expired (you are forced to re-login).
The web session timeout is
relative to user activity. That is, it resets to 0 when user activity
is detected.
LTPA token timeout is not related to user activity. It
will timeout after the amount of time from creation date no matter
what user activity is going on.
From http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21078845:
Question 3
I want to force my users to re-login after a set "inactivity timeout" period. How is WebSphere Application Server supposed to work with regard to session timeouts and LTPA timeout.
Answer 3
See the answer to this question in item 9 of the following developerworks article:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1003_botzum/1003_botzum.html
From that link you learn:
9- I want to force my users to login again after a set "inactivity timeout" period. How is WebSphere Application Server supposed to work with regard to session timeouts and LTPA timeouts?
The WebSphere Application Server LTPA token expires based on the lifetime of the login session, not based upon inactivity. Thus, the WebSphere Application Server login session will not expire if the user performs no action for some period of time. However, the HTTPSession does expire based upon inactivity. If in your application you need to expire the use of an application based on idleness, you must explicitly code this in your application. You can capture when a user arrives with an expired session (really, a new session) and force them to login again if you think this is necessary. Keep in mind that doing this undermines Single Sign On across applications.
A second approach that is a slight variation on the first is to use HTTPSession.getLastAccessTime() to compute when the last client request occurred. If the time is too far into the past, you can of course fail the access and force a new authentication.
Either of these approaches can be made transparent to the application code through the use of servlet filters.
It should be noted that IBM Tivoli® Access Manager provides for lifetime- and idle-based authentication session timeouts.
Users often ask why WebSphere Application Server works this way. Why can't it timeout idle login sessions? The reason is because WebSphere Application Server is fundamentally a loosely coupled distributed system. Application servers that participate in an SSO domain don't need to talk to each other. They don't even have to be in the same cell. So, if you want to limit the idleness lifetime of an LTPA token (aka SSO token), you'd have to update the token itself with a last usage time on every request (or perhaps on the first request seen during a one minute interval). This means that the token itself would change frequently (meaning the browser would be accepting new cookies frequently) and that WebSphere Application Server would have to decrypt and verify the inbound token when it is seen to validate it. That could be expensive (WebSphere Application Server today only validates a token on the first use at each application server). It's not impossible to solve these problems with clever caching and such, but that's not how WebSphere Application Server works today.
I've added this inside the system.web node of my web.config
<sessionState mode="InProc" timeout="600" />
but my sessions are timing out within 30 minutes.
is there something else I need to do to increase my session timeout length?
There is a forms authentication node in my web.config as well but I'm not using any authentication on the web site. The forms authentication has a timeout value of 2880...but again, I'm not doing any authentication at all...
but my sessions are timing out within 30 minutes.
I suspect it's IIS which is recycling the application pool after a certain time of inactivity. And since your sessions are stored in-memory their contents is wiped out of existence when the web server tears down the application domain.
Look at the properties of the application pool of your application in IIS. You will see that there are settings allowing to configure this. There are also conditions such as memory or CPU threshold limits when IIS might recycle your application pool. If you want durable sessions you need to make them out-of-proc (session state server or SQL).