Re: Proper session timeout

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From: No One (noone_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:24:09 GMT

I have that too.

<sessionState mode="InProc" stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;Trusted_Connection=yes"
cookieless="false" timeout="20"/>

Daniel Ansari wrote:

> The <forms> element in <authentication> section has a timeout attribute -
> this is actually the timeout for the authentication ticket, and it sounds
> like this is the one you've got set.
>
> The session has a separate timeout specified in the <sessionState> element
> in <system.web>.
>
> This thing had me stumped for a long time.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> "No One" <noone@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:41CA43CE.92235B0F@yahoo.com...
> > I have a web app that uses forms authentication. When sessions timeout,
> > the user is not automatically redirected to the login page. Instead,
> > they see an error message about object references not being set. These
> > errors occur in the C# code behind. I also have to manually redirect
> > users that are not logged in. Does ASP.Net support sessions properly
> > out of the box (I have the web.config set to use forms authentication)
> > or do I have to role my own Session checking scheme to get users to the
> > login page?
> >

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