Re: Session_End

From: Patrice (nobody_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:48:11 +0200

Application recycled likely.

I would see things the other way round :
- do I have to use Session_End ? If not I avoid it.

For example the SQL Server session state provider uses a job to perform
housekeeping tassks in the DB regularly...

Patrice 

-- 
"Guadala Harry" <GMan@NoSpam.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:OVyUNo7rEHA.1712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Actually  - just the opposite - I would like to have some code that
executes
> when *any/every* session ends. There would be no point in writing that
code
> if I could not be sure (as much as anything can be certain in a computer)
> that Session_end would fire for every session end. So, asking about the
> known cases where session_end does not fire - if there are any such
> well-known cases - would give me an idea of whether or not to proceed with
> writing the code. E.g., if there were 2 or 3 scenarios where it does not
> fire, but they are not relevant to my application - then I'd go ahead and
> write the code. Just wondering what those scenarios would be if there are
in
> fact any such scenarios.
>
> So from your response, it appears that session_end is expected to always
> fire under normal circumstances (nothing special for state server, etc).
> Correct?
>
> GH
>
>
>
> "Praveen K" <PraveenK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BE75D270-6F90-4959-844A-A4C2C375D849@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Harry,
> >
> >     I was not able to trace what exactly you are looking out, but what i
> > assume from your post is that you need scenario's where the Session_End
> will
> > not be fired.
> > And the answer to this is, The Session_End will not be fired if your
> session
> > is not running in the same process with the IIS as the browser generates
> the
> > session's with the help of IIS. which is the web server. The best
example
> i
> > can give is In the web.config set the Session MOde as StateServer or
> > SQLserver and write some code in the Session_End the Session_End will
not
> be
> > fired.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Guadala Harry" wrote:
> >
> > > Just wondering if Session_End *always fires* for every Session. I know
> that
> > > IIS times out sessions after a default 20 min (unless changed) and
> there's
> > > no way to know when a user actually closed a browser (unless I provide
a
> > > "log out" button that kills the session explicitly, and we can't
> guarantee
> > > the user will click on that). What I am wondering if there are there
> > > well-known/documented circumstances under which Session_End will NOT
> fire
> > > (regardless of what the user is doing/not doing in the browser)?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > -GH
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>