session-timeout

session should never expire by itself

I m using login function in my site with session. This session of mine gets expired after few minutes irrespective of that user has logged out or not. Now what i want is that the session should only gets expired when a user logs out.If a user doesnt log out his account and then comes back after 2-3 days even then he should appear logged...

Session expires after file download

When a user downloads a file from my ASP.NET application, the session expires a few seconds after they download the file. Before the session expires that can perform any task, but after about 5-10 seconds, the session is restarted and they get logged out. I've created a simple page to demonstrate this. To run this simple page, creat...

Get ASP.NET Session Last Access Time (or Time-to-Timeout)

I'm trying to determine how much time is left in a given ASP.NET session until it times out. If there is no readily available time-to-timeout value, I could also calculate it from its last access time (but I didn't find this either). Any idea how to do this? ...

PHP PEAR Auth session timeout

This issue has been driving me insane. On two separate projects (both of which use PEAR as libraries but are written on completely different custom frameworks) I am using PEAR Auth for authentication which uses the session. After logging in, users are logged out within an hour or so of being idle. I don't have the exact time, but it's v...

IIS Session Timeout vs ASP.NET Session Timeout

In IIS 6 (and other versions too afaik), there is a Session Timeout setting in Properties -> Home Directory Tab -> Configuration button -> Options tab. Looks like this: And in the ASP.NET web.config there is a SessionState setting, looks like this: <system.web> <sessionState timeout="120" /> <!-- etc .. --> </system.web> Ar...

CakePHP session/auth logging out intermittently

I'm having reports and complaints from my user that they will be using a screen and get kicked back to the login screen immediately on their next request. It doesn't happen all the time but randomly. I am using CakePHP and the Auth component, which seem to work well other than this issue I got some feedback on the Cake forums once tha...

PHP sessions: What if I set the session expiry to 10 days?

I want the users of my application to stay logged in for very long periods of time. The problem is the the session expires on the server end, thus losing variables stored in the session. So, I'm setting the session to expire in 10 days. My question is: Is there any security or performance issues of setting the GC expiry and cookie lifet...

What status code does ASP.Net (MVC) set when there is a session timeout?

Hi, We need to redirect the user to a session timed out page whenever the ASP.Net session times out. We fetch most of our content through AJAX calls and the user never navigates away from the default page. Is there any way to detect a session timeout on client side (in Javascript) without making any changes to the server-side code. Can ...

Error handling, Session expire strategy in ajax asp.net app

Does anybody have any strategy or ideas for overall handling of errors and session expiration in a big ajaxy application? In a traditional web application when everything was a post or get, it's easy to handle errors and session expiration and present friendly messages to users. Not so much with modern ajaxy web applications. My web a...

HELP! "The custom error module does not recognize this error."

(Please consider this a courtesy more so than a question, but still, please add your advice!) If you hit "The custom error module does not recognize this error" in Outlook Web Access, and you're in Firefox; then your session probably just timed out! You just wrote a big email!!! If you go BACK, all form fields will be BLANK! AHHHH!!!...

Session Time Out never in asp.net mvc

I want my asp.net mvc(C#) application to be with the session without expire. The Session should be active forever the user opens the application. Whats the best way to do it? ...

session expiration

if I am logged in on my application but if i choose closing browser without clicking on logout how will be I logged out from server automatically? ...

How do I warn the user that their web session is about to time out?

I've checked around for a solution but I don't seem to get any directed to asp.net mvc. Basically I'm looking for a solution where a user is notified a minute before the session expires. The ideal solution will be count down notification that will have an option to renew the session. If the countdown timer expires without the user ref...

SSRS2005 timeout error

Hi I've been running around circles the last 2 days, trying to figure a problem in our customers live environment. I figured I might as well post it here, since google gave me very limited information on the error message (5 results to be exact). The error boils down to a timeout when requesting a certain report in SSRS2005, when a ce...

Increase the session timeout of my web form ?

I need to increase session timeout of my web use form ... could anyone please help ? ...

Popup while session timeout

How to set a pop up message box saying... "please end your session and start again" in my asp.net webform? ...

Session problem in asp.net website

I have an asp.net website, where there is no where session is implemented. But i could see the session is timing out when i take the website after deploying in the production server ... i checked the session entries in the web.config file... and searched session in the code.. nowhere i find the entry... now i want to put a message b...

How can I get a session timeout page to bubble up out of an iframe?

I've got a web app in asp.net that uses an Infragistics control for making tabs. Each tab is an iframe, which is nice because only the current tab's page is rendered instead of rendering all of the tabs. However, when a page times out within one of the iframes, only that iframe redirects to the login page instead of the whole window. Is...

if session expires whether the viewstate remains ?

i have set the session timeout to 20 minutes in IIS level and there is no session entries in the web.config. How can i know whether my session exprired in my website? does the state will maintain ? do i can see the values in the text-boxes after the timeout? ...

Debug Session_OnEnd

I put break point inside Session_OnEnd in Global.asax, it seems the ASP.NET application never stop when I try to debug, any thing I missed? But I debug Session_OnStart. ...