[hunchentoot-devel] Expired sessions

[Edi Weitz]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:53:32 +0200, Nico de Jager <ndj at hivsa.com> wrote:

> How do I get rid of expired sessions in hunchentoot without deleting
> valid sessions ("reset-sessions" invalidates and destroys all
> sessions)?
>
> When looking at the sessions returned by "do-sessions", it seems
> that expired sessions are only removed once a user tries to reuse
> the expired session.

Nope.  See below.

> But what if the user never revisits the site, will his/her expired
> session remain in the session list? (Or remain at least until the
> next call to "reset-sessions", which will also delete active
> sessions). How do I identify expired sessions when traversing the
> sessions with "do-session", or do I have to manually keep track of
> this?

Look at *SESSION-GC-FREQUENCY* and SESSION-GC.  Does that help?  I had
plans to export them but somehow haven't done that yet.  Do others
think this would make sense, at least for the first symbol?

Cheers,
Edi.