My session-object dies way to early

[Mr m?ll]

Hi
Im quite new to web programming and I'm buildning this ASP .net page.

I use VS 2003 and C# + IIS 5. The page consists of a login page that
leads to a frame page (with some pages, reading from a MSDE-database)

In the projects web.config-file I have
sessionState mode="InProc"
cookieless="true"
timeout="40"

But all I get is a few lousy minutes before my Session-object dies.
What am I doing wrong ?

/Thanks in advance, Möll

 

[Guest]

take a look in
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\CONFIG\machine.config at
sessionState tag and look at attribute timeout to see how many minutes is set
there.

hope helps
Cheers

 

[Guest]

if you are having problem with sql connection then you should change your
connectiontimeout on command and set to this a longer timeout. I think it is
set to 5 min.

 

[Guest]

if this still doesn't work i found that there is another option which can be
set to make your session longer.
In IIS on your web application right click properties

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I guess that you use forms authentication. Do you have a timeout defined for
forms authentication on the web.config? The problem can be as follows; if the
forms authentication cookie expires (assuming you have a nonpersistent
cookie), the session will be lost although it did not expire yet.

Btw, in my tests, I see that when you put a session timeout on the IIS level
and when you also define it on web.config on session state, then the setting

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I guess that you use forms authentication. Do you have a timeout defined for
forms authentication on the web.config? The problem can be as follows; if the
forms authentication cookie expires (assuming you have a nonpersistent
cookie), the session will be lost although it did not expire yet.

Btw, in my tests, I see that when you put a session timeout on the IIS level
and when you also define it on web.config on session state, then the setting
on web.config overwrites the IIS setting.

Hope this helps,

Ethem

 

[Mr m?ll]

Thanks guys!

Sorry for not answering your posts earlier haven't been home...
anyway. I tried some of the things you suggested and now I have my
40 mins for the session-object (can't really say what did it though ... )

Best regards, Möll