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Add documentation on Banner sessions
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# Sessions
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All notes on the internal workings of Sessions in the Banner system.
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- Sessions are generated on demand with a random string of characters.
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- Sessions are invalidated after 30 minutes, but may change.
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- This delay can be found in the original HTML returned, find `meta[name="maxInactiveInterval"]` and read the `content` attribute.
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- This is read at runtime by the javascript on initialization.
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- Multiple timers exist, one is for the Inactivity Timer.
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- A dialog will appear asking the user to continue their session.
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- If they click the button, the session will be extended via the keepAliveURL (see `meta[name="keepAliveURL"]`).
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- The `keepAliveURL` does not seem to care whether the session is or was ever valid, it will always return a 200 OK with `I am Alive` as the content.
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- When searching with an invalid session (or none at all, as the case may be), the server will return 200 OK, but with an empty result response structure.
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- ```json
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{
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"success": true,
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"totalCount": 0,
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"data": null, // always an array, even if empty
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"pageOffset": 0, //
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"pageMaxSize": 10,
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"sectionsFetchedCount": 0,
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"pathMode": "registration", // normally "search"
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"searchResultsConfigs": null, // normally an array
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"ztcEncodedImage": null // normally a static string in base64
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}
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```
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- This is only the handling for the search endpoint, more research is required to see how other endpoints handle invalid/expired sessions.
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- TODO: How is `pathMode` affected by an expired session, rather than an invalid/non-existent one?
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