Re: [MacPerl] Timeout script

[Christian Huldt <chr@solvare.se>]

On 98-04-08; Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com> wrote:
>Philippe de Rochambeau writes:
>|I am currently looking for a way to log off somebody from a restricted-access
>|server after a length of time lasting a few minutes. For instance, once the
>|user has typed in his user id and password, a Perl script should let him
>|browse through the website's pages for a total of 3 minutes, after which the
>|script would disconnect him.
>
>I think in general, such a thing isn't possible. Web server's are stateless--
>there's no concept of "logging on, doing stuff, logging off" like there
>is for an ftp server, for instance. A web server just gets a request for
>a page, serves the page, and that's it. The requester of that page (which
>doesn't have to be a human) could sit and stare at the page for an hour
>and there's nothing you can do.
>

I suppose the closest you get is using cookies...



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