--- a/web/application.py	Wed Jun 11 18:24:40 2014 +0200
+++ b/web/application.py	Thu Feb 13 16:32:41 2014 +0100
@@ -60,66 +60,6 @@
     finally:
         req.set_cnx(orig_cnx)
 
-class AbstractSessionManager(component.Component):
-    """manage session data associated to a session identifier"""
-    __regid__ = 'sessionmanager'
-
-    def __init__(self, repo):
-        vreg = repo.vreg
-        self.session_time = vreg.config['http-session-time'] or None
-        self.authmanager = vreg['components'].select('authmanager', repo=repo)
-        interval = (self.session_time or 0) / 2.
-        if vreg.config.anonymous_user()[0] is not None:
-            self.cleanup_anon_session_time = vreg.config['cleanup-anonymous-session-time'] or 5 * 60
-            assert self.cleanup_anon_session_time > 0
-            if self.session_time is not None:
-                self.cleanup_anon_session_time = min(self.session_time,
-                                                     self.cleanup_anon_session_time)
-            interval = self.cleanup_anon_session_time / 2.
-        # we don't want to check session more than once every 5 minutes
-        self.clean_sessions_interval = max(5 * 60, interval)
-
-    def clean_sessions(self):
-        """cleanup sessions which has not been unused since a given amount of
-        time. Return the number of sessions which have been closed.
-        """
-        self.debug('cleaning http sessions')
-        session_time = self.session_time
-        closed, total = 0, 0
-        for session in self.current_sessions():
-            total += 1
-            last_usage_time = session.mtime
-            no_use_time = (time() - last_usage_time)
-            if session.anonymous_session:
-                if no_use_time >= self.cleanup_anon_session_time:
-                    self.close_session(session)
-                    closed += 1
-            elif session_time is not None and no_use_time >= session_time:
-                self.close_session(session)
-                closed += 1
-        return closed, total - closed
-
-    def current_sessions(self):
-        """return currently open sessions"""
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def get_session(self, req, sessionid):
-        """return existing session for the given session identifier"""
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def open_session(self, req):
-        """open and return a new session for the given request.
-
-        raise :exc:`cubicweb.AuthenticationError` if authentication failed
-        (no authentication info found or wrong user/password)
-        """
-        raise NotImplementedError()
-
-    def close_session(self, session):
-        """close session on logout or on invalid session detected (expired out,
-        corrupted...)
-        """
-        raise NotImplementedError()
 
 
 class AbstractAuthenticationManager(component.Component):