[rhn-users] RHN Hosted web session expires too quickly

[Ben]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, daryl herzmann wrote:

> Well howdy there!

Hiho.


> I am a RHN hosted user that is getting very frustrated with having my web 
> session timeout after what seems to be only a few minutes of inactivity 
> (perhaps 5-15 minutes worth).  It was a much longer period prior to a few 
> months ago.

As far as I'm concerned its always been Far Too Short.  And now it's even 
shorter.


> I asked redhat support and got this response:
>
>  "We would like inform you that, times out session for RHN is not
>   configurable and we can not change it."

WOW!  You actually got an answer?


> Well that is not cool.  Does anybody know of a setting or something that I 
> can do to work around this?

You could try and find a plugin for your browser which sends keepalive 
requests to a URL (within RHN) without impacting the pages you want to 
access?  I don't know about you but the response from RH sounds like 
weapons-grade hokum to me.  Everything's configurable, session timeouts for 
a web application almost certainly.

Ben
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