Prevent session timeouts? 1

[gnubie]

My PC is 100% secure in my home office. Is there a way to prevent (or better yet, change the value of) session timeouts during on-line banking or other connections that timeout?

 

[traingamer]

Not unless you have access to the servers. The timeouts are not on your side - they're on the server side.

Greg
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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You could simply refresh the page every n minutes, where n is a number less that the number of minutes the timeout is set to.

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[spamjim]

You might be better off with your browser (or a browser add-on) that will remember your username/password so that login is instant. I suspect a good banking site will have a mechanism to notice and address an odd behavior of constant page refreshing every n minutes.

My PC is 100% secure in my home office.

That's very funny. Do you have a moat? Do you never have guests? Do you not have a cat?

 

[gnubie]

traingamer:
[blue]The server? I thought a meta tag, like this one:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60">

would cause the browser to request the page every minute.[/blue]

BillyRayPreachersSon:
[blue]Yes, that is what I do manually and what I want to automate.[/blue]

spamjim:
[blue]A browser add-on that would refresh the page periodically would be excellent. Know of any?

No moat. No guests. I've tried, but I can't get my cat to refresh the page for me. You know cats.[/blue]

 

[feherke]

Hi

A browser add-on that would refresh the page periodically would be excellent. Know of any?

Personally I use ReloadEvery in FireFox, and the built-in one in Opera. Or if you have GreaseMonkey installed just give it a script :

[gray]// ==UserScript==
// @name           Reload
// @include        [URL unfurl="true"]http://example.com/*[/URL]
// ==/UserScript==[/gray]

setTimeout(function() { document.location.reload() },1000*60)

Feherke.

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[spamjim]

The browser add-on that I was thinking of would be to store the username/password so that your log in each time would be painless and transparent.

I still doubt much success will be found with a constant refresh of a page to maintain the session. A well-designed financial web site should prevent persistent logins lasting more than a few hours. If you find yourself fortunate enough to have success with one of these page refresh functions, you should consider yourself unfortunate to be doing business with a financial institution with such flaky security to allow it.