[Zope] Connected users

Sean Hastings whysean at softhome.net
Thu Nov 4 15:29:11 EST 2004


HTTP connections open - send a request - get a response - and close.
users are only really "connected" during that brief period of time.

If you want to create some other definition of "connected", you could check
for time since the last request and decide that any user who has made a
request in the last X minutes is still "connected".

If you want to get really tricky, you could have your Zope pages return a
document with frames, and have one of those frames contain an HTTP reload
command which keeps hitting the sever ever X seconds to let you know that
the browser is still open to your page. (The return to this request can even
be used to generate pop up messages for "connected" users) But even this
doesn't guarantee that your user is still there. He or she may have walked
away from the computer, taken a cab to the airport, and gotten on a flight
to Tonga. :-)

--Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-bounces at zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces at zope.org]On Behalf Of
> John Poltorak
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 4:16 PM
> To: zope at zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Connected users
>
>
> Is there any way to tell from within Zope whether there are any users
> connected at any time?
>
> --
> John
>
>
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