
Session management is a key aspect of many web applications. Striking the balance between saving server resources by timing out and allowing users ample time to get their job done can be somewhat of an art. This is especially true in cases when users spend a lot of time on a single page, either analyzing or inputting data. In this article, Tom Kelleher and David Schultz discuss how you can make a browser detect and alert the server that a user is still using an application, so that the server won?t drop the user?s session data.
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