Dynamic session timeout

[Alan DeKok]

On Nov 9, 2018, at 8:30 PM, Sam T <givemesam at gmail.com> wrote:
> So if this expression is indeed corrected now, i guess my question lies
> with how to handle the output? Take a look
> 
>   if (reply:WISPr-Session-Terminate-Time) {
>            update reply {
> 
>         Session-Timeout :=
> "%{expr:%{integer:reply:WISPr-Session-Terminate-Time} - %l}"

  It turns out that WISPr-Session-Terminate-Time isn't a "date" attribute.  It's just a "string".

  So no, you can't convert a string to an integer.  The v3.0.x code in GitHub gives descriptive errors that explain what's going wrong.

> ...
>        WISPr-Session-Terminate-Time = "2018-12-02T12:22:23+00:00"

  Which is a *string* that represents a date, and not actually a date.  <sigh>  Why can't people design their RADIUS dictionaries correctly?

  The solution is this:

1) use the v3.0.x branch from GitHub in order to get better error messages, and to fix some "expr" parsing issues

2) edit mods-available/date, and add:

date wispr2date {
	format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"
}

3) use this in the "authorize" section:

	if (reply:WISPr-Session-Terminate-Time) {
		update reply {
		       Tmp-Date-0 := "%{wispr2date:&reply:WISPr-Session-Terminate-Time}"
		}

		update reply {
		       Session-Timeout = "%{expr:%{integer:reply:Tmp-Date-0} - %l}"
		}
	}

  And that should work.

  If the WISPr people had used the correct data types, this would be much easier.

  Alan DeKok.