Timeout in questadmin

[Evoir]

Is it possible to give just a little bit more time in questadmin? I find while I am working in there I ahev to log in a dozen times.... It seems like a very short amount of time (like 10 minutes). Could it be extended to 20 inutes or even 30?

Thanks for your consideration!

[sheila]

The timeout in QuestAdmin is set to 24 minutes and we do not plan to extend that period.

[Matt]

I would guess that this is on account of sessions. A cookie would need to be set in order to allow longer periods of time between session timeouts. -Matt

[sheila]

QuestAdmin does use cookies.

The application is set to not accept cookies that are older than the default session-expire time. The default session-expire time is set to 24 minutes. It has been ever since QuestAdmin debuted. We've never changed that value.

[sheila]

To clarify my response above a bit more...

Every time the browser makes a request to QuestAdmin.net, a new cookie with an updated time stamp is sent to the browser. The next request made, The QuestAdmin app checks for a previous cookie. If there is a previous cookie that is not older than 24 minutes, then any existing authenticated session continues AND the timestamp in the cookie is updated. Otherwise, if there is no previous cookie, or it is older than 24 minutes, then the current session is not authenticated.

Effectively this means that if you are inactive for more than 24 minutes, your session expires and you must re-authenticate. This is a security precaution for the end-user's protection.