How do I determine when a user has an idle timeout in Django?

Question

I would like to audit when a user has experienced an idle timeout in my Django application. In other words, if the user\'s session cookie\'s expiration date exceeds the SESSION

Answer 1

I don't know about Django, but can you, simply create a non-persistent cookie, which stores the last access time to a page on your site (you update the cookie on each page load)

Then, on your login page, you can check if your user has your cookie, but no session, then, you know that the user's session has probably timed out. Since you have the time of the last access to a page on your site, you can also calculate, based on the duration of the session, if it has timed out.