Authentucated smartcard user session is terminated immediatedly when card is removed, regardless of httpd SSLSessionCacheTimeout (default 300) setting. Why?

Question

I have installed security device in FF option/advanced tab. Then using smart card to log into my server. The smartcard user is authenticated and secure connection is going smoothly. When the card is removed from the card reader, the connection is immediately terminated, regardless of SSLSessionCacheTimeout settings. Mine is set to 300.
I did same thing with IE, it keeps the connection until the SSLSessionCacheTimeout expires.
It is FF-specific-designed feature? Or I need to do sth specific to FF browser to keep my secure connection based on SSLSessionCacheTimeout setting?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hey,
To answer your question: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript_crypto] this link includes how a developer can control the event handlers upon a smartcard removal. These will only work in FIrefox and may be changed in the furture, this only worked in Firefox 21, so this may not be ideal for you.
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Web sites can make themselves more SmartCard friendly by listening for SmartCard insertion and removal events. To enable your document to receive these events, you must first tell the crypto system you are interested by setting window.crypto.enableSmartCardEvents to true. You can then register event handlers for these events with the document.addEventListener() method.
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Old threads to where this code lives : [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=2708147] I could not find any recent implementations though, it looks like this event is something that happens only serverside?