Renewing the session

How are we suppose to renew the session?

Using req.sessionOptions.maxAge = req.session.maxAge within a middle-ware?

[alvarotrigo]

Sometimes I wonder how is it possible these modules get downloaded 70K times a month and their documentation and support is so limited.

I might be used to other platforms where things are different… but Node never stops surprising me.

[alvarotrigo]

Did you provide any options at your middleware construction time?

I did as far as I know:

app.use(cookieSession({
  maxAge: 3 * 1000, //20*60*1000, //20 mins
  httpOnly: true,
  secure: true,
  secureProxy: true,
  keys: ['key1', 'key2']
}));

app.use(function(req,res,next ){
    console.log(req.session.user);  //user data
    console.log(req.sessionOptions); //empty array

    req.sessionOptions.maxAge: 4000;
    console.log(req.sessionOptions); //  (maxAge: 4000)

   return next();
});

I managed to solve the problem with the renew of the session thanks to this answer in stackoverflow.

Although I’m not quite sure yet why updating a fake session has anything to do with the renew of session.user maxAge.