How can the session lifetime be accurately determined by checking the response headers?

To accurately determine the session lifetime by checking the response headers, you can look for the "Set-Cookie" header that is returned when a session is created or updated. This header contains information about the session cookie, including its expiration time. By parsing this header, you can extract the session lifetime and use it to calculate the actual duration of the session. 

// Start the session
session_start();

// Perform some actions that update the session

// Check the response headers for the Set-Cookie header
$headers = headers_list();
foreach($headers as $header) {
    if (strpos($header, 'Set-Cookie') !== false) {
        // Extract the expiration time from the Set-Cookie header
        $matches = [];
        preg_match('/expires=([^;]+)/', $header, $matches);
        $expiration = strtotime($matches[1]);

        // Calculate the session lifetime
        $session_lifetime = $expiration - time();

        echo "Session Lifetime: " . $session_lifetime . " seconds";
        break;
    }
}

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