Prevent timeout / Keep alive session?

[nQk2]

Hi,
I used to request new transactions every 15 min from a bank using a persisted instance.
Since recently apparently the timeout is lower, so the bank requires a full new login.

Is there some kind of "keep session alive" signal that I can send to the bank in the meantime?

[Philipp91]

Which bank?

I'm not aware of a special FinTs message for this purpose. FinTs runs over TCP connections, which are sort-of a session of their own, but in the PHP world we don't / can't keep that alive.

If it works anything like in the web banking, just executing any action would extend the session. In the browser, I would typically just click around between two pages. In FinTs, perhaps you can just execute a GetSEPAAccounts action or anything else that doesn't change server state.

That said, there might also be an absolute session limit, beyond which you can't extend with refreshes either. E.g. this observes that DKB has a 24h hard limit, in my experience it's even lower. And/or it's possible that refreshes don't work over FinTs.