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Best way to deal with session timeout in web apps?

Asked 2008-09-22T11:26:29.390
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I am currently building an internal web application used in a factory/warehouse type location. The users will be sharing a single PC between several people, so we need to have a fairly short session timeout to stop people wandering off and leaving the application logged in where someone else can come to the PC and do something under the previous user's username.

The problem with this is a session can timeout while a user is currently entering information into a form, especially if they take a long time.

How would you deal with this in a user friendly manner?

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When the user posts the form and their session has timed out, you should make sure you save the form values somewhere and then ask the user to login again. Once they have re-authenticated you they can then re-submit the form (as none of their data will have been lost).

answered 2008-09-22T12:15:15.390

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