Session Timeout Question

[Stephen Noronha]

Hi,

I am creating a test applicaiton with 3 pages say login.aspx test1.aspx and
test2.aspx.
I added this to my global.asax file

Sub Session_End(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
' Fires when the session ends
Session.Timeout = 1
Response.redirect("Login.aspx")
End Sub

question:
1. do I have to change the timeout value in web.config file also?
2. I browsed to test2.aspx and then waited for session to time out, but the
page was not redirected to "Login.aspx"...... why?
i even had a break point, it fired but did nothing.

Please advice,
Stephen

 

[Jack Li]

Hi Stephen,

Answer:
1. You can set it on web.config, but the meaning is not the same. Setting
the Session.Timeout is per request only while web.config is per the web
application.
2. You cannot do response.redirect on Session_End, since the response is
already served.

If you want to redirect to login.aspx after one second, you may want use:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=login.aspx">

or using javascript by timeout.

Regards,
Jack Li
MVP (ASP.NET)

 

[Stephen Noronha]

Thanks Jack
Stephen

Hi Stephen,

Answer:
1. You can set it on web.config, but the meaning is not the same. Setting
the Session.Timeout is per request only while web.config is per the web
application.
2. You cannot do response.redirect on Session_End, since the response is
already served.

If you want to redirect to login.aspx after one second, you may want use:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=login.aspx">

or using javascript by timeout.

Regards,
Jack Li
MVP (ASP.NET)