extending sessions

[Rudi Ahlers]

know the default setting for a session is 20 minutes, and this gets set on
IIS. But, now the question is, how do I extend these sessions?
And, is 45 minutes a good time? this is for reading articles, filling out
surveys, and doing graphical analysis about company entities.

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Rudi Ahlers
+27 (82) 926 1689

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends
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[Philip Q [MVP]]

know the default setting for a session is 20 minutes, and this gets set on
IIS. But, now the question is, how do I extend these sessions?
And, is 45 minutes a good time? this is for reading articles, filling out
surveys, and doing graphical analysis about company entities.

Well, 20mins is how long the server will wait for the user to do
anything (ie. not be idle) before it expires the session. So, if the
users are doing stuff (eg. filliong out surveys, etc.) then you should
not have any problem with this.

If you want, you can extend this in the <sessionState> tag in your
application's web.config -

<sessionState timeout="45" ... />

 

[Rudi Ahlers]

Thanx, that's what I'm looking for, cause they quite often need to read
stuff, before filling out the form, and you know users, they open up the
website, click the lick, go get coffee, check email, forget about it, and
then want to fillin the form

Does this work in ASP? Or just ASP.NET

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Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
+27 (82) 926 1689

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends
(John 15:13).

know the default setting for a session is 20 minutes, and this gets set on
IIS. But, now the question is, how do I extend these sessions?
And, is 45 minutes a good time? this is for reading articles, filling out
surveys, and doing graphical analysis about company entities.

Well, 20mins is how long the server will wait for the user to do
anything (ie. not be idle) before it expires the session. So, if the
users are doing stuff (eg. filliong out surveys, etc.) then you should
not have any problem with this.

If you want, you can extend this in the <sessionState> tag in your
application's web.config -

<sessionState timeout="45" ... />