getting $SERVER_NAME from withing a frameset

[marque]

I have a site that works on a catch all subdomain using a wild card in my dns. The user accesses the site from www.sub.domain.com. The script accepts the domain name and opens up a frameset. With in the mainFrame it opens another site based on a uid gathered from referencing the database. eg www.domain.com/?uid=1

once uid is set in the address query it registeres it in a session and uid doesn't need to be in the address query again.

It all works very well, except for one small bug, sessions unregister after about 5 hours of inactivity.

Typically this would not pose a problem but me being a perfectionist i always like to have things at their best.

So far i have figured out two solutions to this problem:

1: use a meta refresh that refreshes the screen after 1 hour of inactivity, effectively resetting the session time limit.

2: Get $SERVER_NAME from the frameset and re-register the session again.

Trouble is with solution 2, how do you find out what the $SERVER_NAME is from within a frameset?

Any ideas?

[PyroX]

Sessions were not ment to be static, lasting forever.

Try using client-side cookies instead.

I think you also need some "Server Side Scripting 101", as the code is executed as it formats the html for the client, you would need to know your frame layout and where to make the proper calls for the info you want.

[marque]

I considered registering the session within the frameset rather than the mainFrame. This would work because the session applies across the entire browser this way.

However, it would not be fun as the site is such a monster it would mean a lot of rewriting code.

I have put the meta refresh on the site for now and that keeps the session alive forever. But i was hopeing for a better alternative.