I am using Tomcat 7.0, Spring 4.0.2, Web Module 3.0 in eclipse for my web application.
And I configured my session timeout in app/web.xml as well as tomcat/conf/web.xml.
<session-config><session-timeout>10</session-timeout></session-config>
I am sending one request called captureLastActiveTimeForCurrentFile after every 5 mins.
I need to ignore one request (suppose, captureLastActiveTimeForCurrentFile) from updating lastAccessedTime of session.
According http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/systemprops.html#Sessions (org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.ACCESS_SESSION) default behavior of tomcat is : every request that is associated with a session will cause the session's last accessed time to be updated if the request explicitly accesses the session.
I am not accessing session explicitly from request (HttpServletRequest object) captureLastActiveTimeForCurrentFile. So According to my understanding tomcat should invalidate session after 10 min from any request done which is accessing session explicitly. But In my case tomcat never invalidate session because I am sending captureLastActiveTimeForCurrentFile after every 5 mins. But according to docs it should be. Can Anyone help me to understand what is happening here? Thanks in advance.
EDIT : I found some discussion regarding this topic here. But still I am not getting actual problem.
