Django session expiry?
django, django-sessions, django-views, python, python-3.x
Solution
As the author of those methods, I can see that the documentation isn't very clear regarding this. Your observations are correct: only requests which cause the session to be altered is considered "activity".
You can use the `SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST` setting to get the behavior you're after (at the obvious cost of the session having to being saved every request).
Note : It will update the existing session record with latest expiry date.
Problem
From django's documentation, I became under the impression that calling: ``` request.session.set_expiry(300) ``` from one view would cause the session to expire after five minutes inactivity; however, this is not the behavior that I'm experiencing in django trunk. If I call this method from one view, and browse around to other views that don't call the method, the session expires in five minutes. The behavior that I was expecting was an expiry only after five minutes of inactivity and not simply failing to call set_expiry again before the expiry. My question then is do I really need to call set_expiry in every view? If so, does there exist some decorator that may be of assistance? I can't imagine this isn't part of contrib. Thanks, Pete