Web Owner's Portal - 10 minute time-out and workaround

[turbo2ltr]

For firefox users..a way to auto refresh without writing code..

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/reloadevery/

 

[LEAFer]

Carwings just opened for me today, but I have a question for those who have had their vehicles for a while. Is there an easier way (i.e. direct link) to carwings? Do I have to login to my dashboard everytime? That flash animation on the leaf homepage drives me bonkers!

You don't need to go to the DashBoard first ... just create yourself a bookmark to here: http://www.nissanusa.com/owners/login

 

[walterbays]

A 10 to 15 minute time out on an inactive session is pretty standard and is considered "best practice" in the server/networking world, both from a security and a systems resources perspective

It's like the best practice "security" policies that cause users to write passwords down on sticky notes or use the same password everywhere.

Nice comment: Network and system resources are finite - Why don't you let someone who has something to DO get bite of the apple?

Inactive sessions use minimal resources, certainly much less than a session that does nothing but reload every 10 minutes, which itself uses much less than a session that is actually doing something. Long ago systems had trouble handling very large numbers of inactive sessions, but modern systems should have no problem. It will be a few years before Nissan delivers enough vehicles for there to be a "very large" number of users. http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/infocomm99/infocomm99-web/

But true, using this trick wastes a lot of resources compared to using a properly designed web site built for human usability - akin to flooring the accelerator in the car to rush to the next stop light. At least one should not leave the page up when they're not actually using the web site. And setting the refresh interval to just a few seconds would be in effect an attempted denial of service (hacker) attack. (Not a successful attack unless you gathered 10,000 or so piratical friends.

Not so nice comment: This sort of program is easily detected by both the server and the network routers. In my past life, this would have resulted in the user account being de-activated.

Also true. I read that one of the common uses of meta refresh is by page spammers to try to fool search engines.

Better than the workaround would be for Nissan to just fix their web site. Better yet, they would publish web services interfaces so that third parties and open source communities could build web applications and iPhone and Android applications to provide much of the functionality that drivers would like to have, and which would make Leaf much more successful.

 

[planet4ever]

Carwings just opened for me today, but I have a question for those who have had their vehicles for a while. Is there an easier way (i.e. direct link) to carwings? Do I have to login to my dashboard everytime? That flash animation on the leaf homepage drives me bonkers!

You don't need to go to the DashBoard first ... just create yourself a bookmark to here: http://www.nissanusa.com/owners/login

Right. And as for the animation when you're really trying to get into the dashboard, you can bypass that like this:
www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/myAccount/index

They will then try to show you their cutsie movie when you log off, but you should be able to think of a couple of ways to defeat that.

Ray