Make sure you set them to be equivalent periods in time, and you should be in ok shape. For example, if you had a session that you wanted to preserve for 45 days, set your cookie expiration to 45 days, and your container object timeout to (45*1440). Also, for applications that use different session expirations in session id managers (which, by design, need to be in different folder hierarchies), you would want to create multiple session data containers in your non-undo storage; otherwise you would have to create a container storing objects for longer than they might be needed. I have a server that currently serves 2 different virtual hosts through Zope, and has much different uses of CST, so I have a session is manager in each site, and share an externally mounted non-undo db at the path /session_storage, which is available as a path to each session data manager in each virtual host via acquisition, but they use different container objects within that storage; this works out well for me. One tip, though, with CST: do not (I repeat, do not) install Transparent Folders; they will break CST so that you cannot have more than one session id manager, which sucks if you are doing virtual hosting of several sites needing different session exp. times... Sean -----Original Message----- From: CJ Kucera [mailto:pez@apocalyptech.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 2:32 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] More CoreSession/Data Container questions I'm wondering about the relationship between the "Data object timeout value" in the Data Container and the "Cookie Lifetime" in the Session ID Manager. I've set the Cookie Lifetime rather high because I want the sessions to basically persist forever, but the value in the Data Container is determined in minutes, not days, so I'm a bit confused as to how long data from a session will actually persist. Could someone clarify this for me? Thanks once again for all the help! -CJ WOW: Rapacious | A priest advised Voltaire on his death bed to apocalyptech.com/wow | renounce the devil. Replied Voltaire, "This pez@apocalyptech.com | is no time to make new enemies." _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )