GMail allows you to check a box to stay logged in for 2 weeks. Otherwise once you close the browser you are logged out of the system.
I like that approach. But I have been in the middle of writing an email when my session did expire. When I clicked the send button it showed me a message that my session had expired but did not move to a new screen. It allowed me to copy the text of my email so that I can log back in and continue along by pasting in the text again.
I would prefer it to simply prompt me for my password to reset the timeout though. If I am in the middle of something I do not want to be kicked out or interrupted.
Brennan
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 21:24:07 -0300, "Sergio A. Kessler" sergiokessler@gmail.com wrote:
and how do you stop people from doing stupids things ? and where do you draw the line ?
I mean, if I delete an important file or mail and clean the trash, how do you stop me ?
shit happens, anyway...
and doing something that affect to 99% of the people in a bad way, just because we want to "help" a stupid that forget to close the mail in a *public* computer, is nonsense IMO...
btw, someone knows how does gmail or hotmail manage this ?
On 9/7/06, Mark Edwards mark@antsclimbtree.com wrote:
On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Martin Marques wrote:
Closing the navegator SHOULD kill the session, AFAIK.
So, the only reason I see is if you leave the web browser open.
Why is that not a good enough reason for a timeout safety feature? Someone can have it open but hidden and not realize it.
Just because someone does something stupid or wrong doesn't mean there shouldn't be a safety feature to help them.
-- Mark Edwards
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