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katie hudson
katie hudson

Reputation: 2893

Understanding Laravel Session Handler

I am trying to understand Laravels session handler and can't find anything online. At the moment, in session.php I am doing

'lifetime' => 10,

I have the session driver set to file. So from what I have read, this sets the idle timeout of the session to 10 minutes.

So what does idle mean in this case? I am assuming it means if no request is sent to the server within 10 minutes it will expire. Is this correct?

Also, how can it tell if no request has been sent within 10 minutes? I have taken a look at the session file within storage, and I do not see any timestamp.

So how exactly does all of this work?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1202

Answers (1)

dparoli
dparoli

Reputation: 9161

Yes you are correct: if you don't send any request after the lifetime config value the session will be destroyed.

The Illuminate\Session\FileSessionHandler class has a gc() function, it is a garbage collector function that has a probability to be called on every request, you can control the chances with the session.lottery config value. This function destroy each session file that has a modified timestamp older than now - lifetime.

You can find the Illuminate\Session\FileSessionHandler class in the file vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Session/FileSessionHandler.php if you want to take a look at the source code.

Upvotes: 1

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