django request session default expiry time

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41614970/what-is-the-default-django-session-lifetime-and-how-to-change-it

 The setting you are looking for is SESSION_COOKIE_AGE, the default value is 1209600 which is two weeks, in seconds.

You can change the default Django session lifetime by setting SESSION_COOKIE_AGE to "settings.py" as shown below. By default, SESSION_COOKIE_AGE is 1209600 seconds(2 weeks):

# "settings.py"

SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 180 # 3 minutes

SESSION_COOKIE_AGE

Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds)

The age of session cookies, in seconds.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/http/sessions/#:~:text=If%20value%20is%20an%20integer,at%20that%20specific%20date%2Ftime.

set_expiry(value)¶

Sets the expiration time for the session. You can pass a number of different values:

• If value is an integer, the session will expire after that many seconds of inactivity. For example, calling request.session.set_expiry(300) would make the session expire in 5 minutes.
• If value is a datetime or timedelta object, the session will expire at that specific date/time.
• If value is 0, the user’s session cookie will expire when the user’s web browser is closed.
• If value is None, the session reverts to using the global session expiry policy.