[hunchentoot-devel] Session Time Out - HELP!

[Phil Marneweck]

Some additional info:

I am running the latest sbcl, hunchentoot and related code from clbuild
as of Monday the 17th and my server is a virtual ubuntu 9.4

On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 13:12 +0200, Phil Marneweck wrote:

> Well after running fine for a while hunchentoot is again re-setting
> sessions at arbitrary intervals. 
> 
> I have closed down my lisp instance serveral times today and restarted
> everything. Everything will work for a while (5 to 45 minutes) and
> then fall apart. Once hunchentoot has killed sessions once, it does so
> every couple of minutes, some times under a minute.
> 
> I have checked my code again looking for a place that I might be
> killing the sessions or setting the session to nil in any way but I
> have no such code.
> 
> I set the following before creating any acceptors:
> 
> (setf hunchentoot::*session-gc-frequency* nil)
> (setf hunchentoot::*session-max-time* 36000)
> (setf hunchentoot::*use-user-agent-for-sessions* nil)
> 
> hunchentoot::*use-remote-addr-for-sessions* reports NIL
> 
> I added a check to see what the (session-db *my-acceptor*) reports
> when I say hunchentoot "resets sessions" and it reports NIL. Before a
> reset (session-db *my-acceptor*) reports (8 .#).
> 
> The only other thing that I can think might have an effect is that the
> site uses ssl but hunchentoot is not hangling the ssl I am forwarding
> from nginx to hunchentoot.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 11:23 +0200, Edi Weitz wrote: 
> 
> > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Phil Marneweck <zaries at global.co.za> wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanx again for the help.
> > 
> > You're welcome... :)
> > 
> > > PS: How about some cross references in the documentation for
> > > *session-gc-frequency*, *session-max-time* and
> > > *use-remote-addr-for-sessions* just as a heads up for other people that
> > > might stumble into this?
> > 
> > Well, they are all mentioned in the same short chapter about sessions,
> > and *use-remote-addr-for-sessions* is by default set to NIL.  One
> > should assume that users setting this value to T know what they're
> > doing.  Besides, I don't see any specific relation between, e.g.,
> > *session-gc-frequency* and *use-remote-addr-for-sessions*.
> > 
> > Edi.
> > 
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