136612 - [RFE] Automatic Session Keep Alive?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, enhancement)

Description

[Wilfried Goesgens]

Most Internet-sites work with session Time-outs.
I've often suffered the happening that I entered something, the entered wasn't
valid, until I found out what was wrong, the server terminated the session, 
And one has do do it all over again.
Here my Sugestion: 
Why not have a "keepalive" button, that does a head Request to the actual
address every n Seconds (there could be a dialog with the time) which would the
Server make think that I'm still working on it, while getting the needed
Circumstances to proceed my work?

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

hmm... interesting suggestion.  the real question is what is the server using to
determine session timeout... time since a particular cookie was last sent? 
probably.  at any rate, no time for this bug now -> future.

Comment 2

[Wilfried Goesgens]

usualy the server keeps a number of active sessions, and cleans them (and their
data) up if a given amount of time is passed, the session-data is thrown away.
(this is either practice if one uses cookies or query-string)

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

-> default owner