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session updates - El Forum - 02-21-2008
[eluser]sawatdee[/eluser]
Does anyone know why CodeIgniter changes the session_id every 5 minutes by default? Is there a security reason for this? If not, is there a way to make session_id remain the same and only regenerate a new one when the previous session has expired? I need to log some information for each session, but if the user reloads the page then the session_id changes and I can no longer identify what session it is.
session updates - El Forum - 06-23-2008
[eluser]mumrah[/eluser]
I had this same problem, blogged here.
Basically, CI regenerates the session id after sess_time_to_update has elapsed. The default is 300 seconds (5 mins).
The fix is to either comment out some code (see above link), or to change this value to match sess_expiration.
Cheers
-David