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session timeout setting ignored/confusing to configure

           Summary: session timeout setting ignored/confusing to configure
           Product: Tomcat 4
           Version: Nightly Build
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Catalina
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: dlr@finemaltcoding.com


StandardManager's maxInactiveInterval is ignored in my Catalina setup with the
20020124 HEAD nightly. build

    <context ...>
        ...
        <Manager maxInactiveInterval="2" debug="1"/>
    </context>

StandardContext's sessionTimeout is also ignored:

    <context sessionTimeout="2" ...>
        ...
    </context>

I have only had success with setting the session timeout in the web application
deployment descriptor:

    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>2</session-timeout>
    </session-config>

Also, I couldn't tell which of these 3 ways was the recommended method for
setting a session timeout (assuming that all three actually do just that).  It
looks like some are used as overrides and other as baselines, but the
documentation was nearly non-existant.  If someone can clarify this for me, I'll
submit the appropriate xdoc changes.

Note that I have custom Valve implementations that manipulate Sessions using the
Catalina API.  However, since the session-config/session-timeout property works
for me, I'd be hesitant to say that this custom Valve is affecting things.

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