I fully understand that the RESTful API is stateless and under most circumstances having the ability that I am requesting doesn't make sense. However, due to the nature of our usage and reliance on the SmartConnect API, having such a feature is somewhat important. We have users that are "active" in an SPA for a long period of time but the platform does not recognize that they are active at all and times them out. Alerts regarding the session timeout are not particularly useful either as the user still needs to perform some native platform action in order to "refresh" the session timeout. The ability to tie specific actions within the SPA to trigger a refresh would allow us to identify to the platform that the user is active.

I completely understand if there are security implications to implementing such that would prevent such a feature to exist, but I am hoping that this is not the case and it is within the platforms capability to support something like this.

What I am ultimately looking for is a way for our SPA's using the SmartConnect API to identify to the platform that the user is still active. How that manifests it totally up to you.