Re: Extending session timeout Was: Re: CAPTCHA (verification code) and session
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contained the following:
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>Ah, so we get finally to the actual problem.
>
>It's a user problem. Your user starts filling in a form, any form, the user
>walks away, the form times out (the session expires). That is how it works.
>
>So tell your users right up front on the top of the form in big bright
>letters that they only have a certain amount of [time] to fill in the form.
>Replace [time] with whatever you feel comfortable with and set your session
>timeout accordingly.
>
>
>Better yet, for such a potentialy long time thing you might re-think your
>strategy. Why not ask them to prepare, carefully, a text document and when
>it is finished upload it?
Read something?
These are highly educated academics, researchers. phds and professors.
Believe me, we need to make it especially idiot proof.
I think your solution avoids the problem.
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contained the following:
>OK, we have a form which users use to fill in an abstract for an
>academic paper. Most people use it ok, but occasionally a user logs in,
>opens the form and then fills it in over a long period of time, during
>which the session expires.
>academic paper. Most people use it ok, but occasionally a user logs in,
>opens the form and then fills it in over a long period of time, during
>which the session expires.
>Ah, so we get finally to the actual problem.
>
>It's a user problem. Your user starts filling in a form, any form, the user
>walks away, the form times out (the session expires). That is how it works.
>
>So tell your users right up front on the top of the form in big bright
>letters that they only have a certain amount of [time] to fill in the form.
>Replace [time] with whatever you feel comfortable with and set your session
>timeout accordingly.
>
>
>Better yet, for such a potentialy long time thing you might re-think your
>strategy. Why not ask them to prepare, carefully, a text document and when
>it is finished upload it?
These are highly educated academics, researchers. phds and professors.
Believe me, we need to make it especially idiot proof.
I think your solution avoids the problem.
--
Geoff Berrow 011000100110110 0010000000110
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100110001101101 111001011100111 010101101011
http://slipperyhill.co.uk - http://4theweb.co.uk
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