session-timeout vs. maxInactiveInterval

[Lynn Hollerman <gm...@louisiana.edu>]

Question. I have been looking around the Net for information about the 
items in the subject and tomcat; it appears that they are actually the 
same thing(I'm not sure I'm understanding the docs correctly). So then, 
what is the difference between the <session-timeout> that's set in a 
tomcat's web.xml or an application's web.xml and the 
"maxInactiveInterval" attribute of <Manager> in the context.xml file for 
a particular application? Are these values interchangable, or does one 
supercede the other?

Thanks!
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Lynn Hollerman.
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RE: session-timeout vs. maxInactiveInterval

["Caldarale, Charles R" <Ch...@unisys.com>]

> From: Lynn Hollerman [mailto:gmh2441@louisiana.edu]
> Subject: session-timeout vs. maxInactiveInterval
> 
> I have been looking around the Net for information about
> the items in the subject and tomcat; it appears that they
> are actually the same thing

Pretty much.  The <Manager> setting is used if the web.xml does not contain a <session-timeout> value.  Note the following from the servlet spec description of <session-timeout>:

"If this element is not specified, the container must set its default timeout period."

Since Tomcat supplies a <session-timeout> element in the global conf/web.xml, you would have to remove that before the <Manager> setting became effective.

 - Chuck


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