[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH V3 1/3] add timeout for sessions

[Sheldon]

in order to test this patch set, please:

change the

+    SESSIONSTIMEOUT = 10

as

+    SESSIONSTIMEOUT = 1

then
$ ./autogen
$ make
$ sudo PYTHONPATH=src ./src/kimchid --host "0.0.0.0"
$ firefox  http://localhost:8000/#tabs/guests


and waiting 1 minute.

Thanks.


On 03/05/2014 08:52 AM, shaohef at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> From: ShaoHe Feng <shaohef at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> The default timeout of sessions is 60 minutes.
>
> Set the timeout of sessions 10 minutes explicitly.
>
> Kimchi should have 10 minutes of time out value for the browser login
> session.
> If session got inactive for 10 minutes then it should expire
> automatically.
> And should ask user for relogin. This is required for the security
> reason.
>
> But this timeout will not take effect on some tabs, such as guest tab.
> The root cause is because the front end refreshes the vm list every 5
> seconds
> by sending the "GET /vms" REST API call to the server.
>
> The follow patch will solve this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: ShaoHe Feng <shaohef at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   src/kimchi/config.py.in | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/kimchi/config.py.in b/src/kimchi/config.py.in
> index d73a8f4..426fbd1 100644
> --- a/src/kimchi/config.py.in
> +++ b/src/kimchi/config.py.in
> @@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ class UIConfig(dict):
>
>
>   class KimchiConfig(dict):
> +    # session time out is 10 minutes
> +    SESSIONSTIMEOUT = 10
> +
>       kimchi_config = {
>           '/': {'tools.trailing_slash.on': False,
>                 'request.methods_with_bodies': ('POST', 'PUT'),
> @@ -159,6 +162,7 @@ class KimchiConfig(dict):
>                 'tools.sessions.httponly': True,
>                 'tools.sessions.locking': 'explicit',
>                 'tools.sessions.storage_type': 'ram',
> +              'tools.sessions.timeout': SESSIONSTIMEOUT,
>                 'tools.kimchiauth.on': False},
>           '/data/screenshots': {
>               'tools.staticdir.on': True,


-- 
Thanks and best regards!

Sheldon Feng(冯少合)<shaohef at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center