Automatically logout inactive session

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How can i automatically logout a session that is idle for a while.I require this in ASP.NET web applicatio. Thank You in advance.

Francis · Answer

Normally, in an asp.net application, if you are using any session handling (inproc, outproc) mode then default session timeout is 20 minutes. You can set it in web.config itself like below: So the above line implies that, it will clear the session value of the particular user in the server, however may be still the authenticated user. If you are using "Form authentication" then you can come across the term "sliding expiration", which is always related with session's "timeout", in the sense they are closely related in terms of the context, however, both are different. You can find a more "meaningful" discussion over here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17812994/forms-authentication-timeout-vs-sessionstate-timeout I hope the above url will help you understand the difference between these two. The reason behind is, since the previous poster (Arul) mentioned about this in his reply. Hope this helps! Let me know your thoughts!

Arul R · Answer

In web.config Please go through below links: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/709182/asp-net-implementing-auto-logout-functionality https://vishalsjadhav.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/displaying-session-timeout-dialogs-correctly-in-asp-net/ http://geekswithblogs.net/shahed/archive/2007/09/05/115173.aspx http://www.aspdotnet-suresh.com/2012/06/jquery-show-session-timeout-message.html Let me know for any thing more.... If your problem solved means kindly Accept my answer

Rajeesh Menoth · Answer

Hi, Check this article : http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/show/3130/automatically-logout-when-user-is-idle-for-sometime

Automatically logout inactive session

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