Bob,

If you have a web garden or a web farm I think you have to physically store the information on disk (in a table or an XML file).
I recall investigating a timeout feature for a web site I developed, I don't think I ended up using it but the idea is really good and I have seen the same approach in use on several comercial websites. Simply have use javascript to create a timer that counts down and when it reaches 0 it goes to your logout screen with a friendly notice saying that the user has been logged out automatically. I think I found the javascript code on Experts Exchange.

Anywho just my $0.02
Einar

>In the app I have, I need to limit the number of logins to the licensed user count.
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>I want to avoid if possible having to update the SQL logins table everytime the user hits the web server. But, I can't think of a place to store this information that would be more performant and also span any possible web garden/web farm issues.
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>Or, if you can think of a way to deal with the time out rather than updating the last accessed time for each user on each hit?
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>Any ideas?
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>Thanks,
>BOb