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A Django middleware application to timeout a logged in user session after a specified time period.

Installation instructions:
- Make sure the following Django apps/middlewares are enabled.
  - Authentication (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/)
  - Sessions (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/sessions/)
  - Messages framework (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/messages/)
- Place the checked out 'sessions' directory in your project.
- Make the following entries in your 'settings.py' project module.
  - Append an entry to the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES as 'sessions.middleware.SessionIdleTimeout', at the bottom.
  - Add 'sessions' to INSTALLED_APPS. (Optional)
  - Add a entry named 'SESSION_IDLE_TIMEOUT' to specify the idle timeout period, in seconds.

That's it, you will receive a session timeout message using the Django message framework in your templates.