Spring Boot session timeout

Question

server.session-timeout seems to be working only for embedded tomcat.

I put a log statement to check the session max interval time. After deploying the

Answer 1

You've discovered, as I have, that there is no direct call in the Servlet API nor the Spring APIs for setting the session timeout. The need for it is discussed here and there, but it hasn't been addressed yet.

There's kind of a round-a-bout way to do what you want. You can configure a session listener that sets the timeout on the session. I came across an article with code examples at: http://fruzenshtein.com/spring-java-configuration-session-timeout

I hope that helps.