Topic: Session-Timeout respecting mouse clicks but not a keypress

[potatan]

Hi

I've searched for an answer to this but can only find programmable fixes - I'm wondering if there is a conf file solution to my problem, as it is a third party application that we have no control over for programming.

We have a screen where users are filling out a form on our website, but if they don't click "submit" before the session-timeout limit, they are logged out and lose their work when they click the button.

So for instance with a timeout of 10 minutes, if it takes 15 minutes to construct their message, the connection will silently time out in the background with no warning.

Is there a way to make Apache respect a keypress/keydown/keyup as "activity", and maintain the session while the user is still typing?

Our server reports that it is using Apache Tomcat/7.0.39

Thanks in advance.

[James Blond]

Well you might send requests via ajax from time to time to the server.

[potatan]

Thanks for the suggestion but we don't have the ability to load or execute code on this server, so I was hoping for a simpler solution involving changing a setting such as in an XML or Conf file for instance.

[James Blond]

Do you have a reverse proxy in front of that server or just the tomcat?