django-session-timeout-joinup 1.0.0

Middleware to expire sessions after specific amount of time

django-session-timeout

Add timestamp to sessions to expire them independently

Installation

pip install django-session-timeout-joinup

Usage

Update your settings to add the SessionTimeoutMiddleware:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
    # ...
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django_session_timeout.middleware.SessionTimeoutMiddleware',
    # ...
]

And also add the SESSION_EXPIRE_MAXIMUM_SECONDS:

SESSION_EXPIRE_MAXIMUM_SECONDS = 28800  # 8 hours

By default, the session will expire X seconds since the user do login.

SESSION_EXPIRE_SECONDS = 3600  # 1 hour

The session will expire X seconds after the start of the session or renew it. To renew the session X seconds after expire, use the following setting:

SESSION_EXPIRE_AFTER_LAST_ACTIVITY_GRACE_PERIOD = 1800  # 30 minutes

To redirect to a custom URL define the following setting:

SESSION_TIMEOUT_REDIRECT = 'your_redirect_url_here/'