Question

I’m trying to adjust the session timeout using HttpSession.setMaxInactiveInterval and it’s not working.

Here is my code (Groovy), which is executing without exceptions:

def paramValue = WebAttributes.REQUEST.getParameter('maxInactiveSeconds');
println 'paramValue=' + paramValue;
if (paramValue != null) {
  def seconds = Integer.parseInt(paramValue);
  WebAttributes.REQUEST.getSession().setMaxInactiveInterval(seconds);
}

Some details:

• Tomcat 6.0.16
• This is happening in a webapp separate from the ‘normal’ one (i.e. with visual content), but I have defined emptySessionPath=”true” so the session *should* be shared across webapps

thanks,

haruspex

Answer 1

Turns out there was another technology setting the maxInactiveInterval back to 30 min, overriding my attempts to change it.

Tomcat, Java, etc. were all working as expected.