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Jer_TX
Jer_TX

Reputation: 474

Pyramid session object disappears after ~20 mins

Setting a variable in request.session with

request.session['display_name'] = 'foo'

and then displaying throughout my app with

request.session.display_name

Which works just fine throughout the app. If left alone for about 20 minutes however, I can no longer call it. I get:

AttributeError: 'CookieSession' object has no attribute 'display_name'

Reading up on how pyramid sessions are supposed to work, it should still exist for duration of the browser scope.

Any ideas why it gets removed after a while?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 516

Answers (1)

Steve Piercy
Steve Piercy

Reputation: 15045

See the definition for timeout:

A number of seconds of inactivity before a session times out. If None then the cookie never expires. This lifetime only applies to the value within the cookie. Meaning that if the cookie expires due to a lower max_age, then this setting has no effect. Default: 1200.

Assuming you don't set max_age, or if you set max_age to be 1200 or greater, then the default setting of timeout (1200 seconds) will expire the cookie at that elapsed duration.

1200 seconds / 60 seconds per minute = 20 minutes

...which is consistent with your experience.

Try setting timeout to your desired duration in seconds, or to None to prevent the expiration of the cookie while the browser is open.

Upvotes: 5

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