Remove soft session lifetime completely #1344
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#1301's removal of
WWW-Authenticate
broke the session handling logic that enabled us to have a soft and a hard life-time. (If the user had a session that soft-expired but didn't hard expire, the login window was infintiely looping.) Due to the server not storing anything user session specific within the session itself (it is just only used to allow privileged access), the soft lifetime's reason "with a login the user could get back settings stored for their session" is moot.soft_expire
has been removed completely from usage. Ifsoft_expire
is found in the server configuration, it is ignored. The previous logic ofsession_expire
being a hard expire now becomes the only expire countdown. If this expires, the user has to log in again no matter what.If soft-expire is ever to be introduced again, the logic on when and exactly how the user needs to be redirected need be revised.