session Timeout after 5 minutes

Danish Habib

Dear all i have a problem with session I have set the session time out in my web.config as follows
mode="InProc"
cookieless="true"
timeout="60" />

but after 5 minutes my session timeout if the user did not interact with the application means if the user put the application window idle (minimize and do some other task or even when he is filling the form its quite long form so he may take more than 5 minutes when he fill the form and click the submit button the session time out and he moves to login page)

My application is hosted on the server and I check there the property of Idletimeout set to 5 minutes i have asked from the hosting provider to increase this time they said that you can increase this using session timeout ,please guide me after 5 minutes if not button is click even if the user is filling the textboxes and when click the submit button session timeout

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Danish Habib11y ago
Thanks for Md. Raskinur Rashid for your response my problem is that when I put the window idle mean i have a web form which is too long and when the user start filling this form and when it gets complete and he click the submit button the page redirect to the login page and session time out and no data has been submitted , I have hosted my application with the hosting provider and he said to increase the session time out and i set that in my web.config file but after 5 minutes if the page is not interacted then the session time out ,I have checked the hosting solution provider crendentials and he set the idle time out of 5 minutes and when i asked from him about the time increase he said that you can increase the time from web.config weather i thought that this is the time for IIS Poll .
Md. Raskinur Rashid11y ago
Read following article. I think you will get your answer-

http://weblogs.asp.net/stevewellens/ah-ah-ah-ah-staying-alive-staying-alive

Alternalive you can use these-
- ViewState
- Hidden Fields
- Cookies
- Query Strings