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Re: Unspecified Lifetime



If you set lifetime to kilobytes (say 5KB), but then your session stops short of
this limit (say at 4KB) - then without some large time-based lifetime limit it
will be alive forever - I am not sure if I want this.

"Derrell D. Piper" wrote:

> Kim,
>
> >If I only send a lifetime in kilobytes, does the other end set its
> >lifetime in kilobytes attribute to the specified value AND its lifetime
> >in seconds attribute to the default 28800 seconds? ( ... I hope not )
>
> I hope not as well.  The default is intended to apply when no lifetime
> attributes are sent.  If any are sent, then only those that are sent should
> apply and the default is not applicable.
>
> I'll add this to the list for the next revision of the DOI, which will be out
> before the deadline for Washington.  (There, now, I've got to do it...  :-)
>
> Derrell

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