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Hi,

I would like to know if there was a way to trap a session timeout on
an asp.net event. What I mean is that I've set a session timeout in
the web.config file. What I would like to do is when that timeout is
reached, I would like it to fire an event. Is there some event in the
global asax that could fire when the session normally ends. I need to
capture this to call a corresponding function during time lapse
timeout.

For InProc Session, the Session_End event in global.asax *is* the event that
is fired when a user Session has expired.
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"" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if there was a way to trap a session timeout on
> an asp.net event. What I mean is that I've set a session timeout in
> the web.config file. What I would like to do is when that timeout is
> reached, I would like it to fire an event. Is there some event in the
> global asax that could fire when the session normally ends. I need to
> capture this to call a corresponding function during time lapse
> timeout.
>
>
>

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news:836dfde5-aff7-4ea9-afdb-...

> I would like to know if there was a way to trap a session timeout on
> an ASP.NET event.

Session_End will fire when an inproc session terminates.

N.B. closing the browser or navigating to a different website will *NOT*
cause the session on the webserver to terminate...


--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if there was a way to trap a session timeout on
> an asp.net event. *What I mean is that I've set a session timeout in
> the web.config file. *What I would like to do is when that timeout is
> reached, I would like it to fire an event. *Is there some event in the
> global asax that could fire when the session normally ends. *I need to
> capture this to call a corresponding function during time lapse
> timeout.
>
>

or....if you have a session variable, let's call it "SessionTestVar",
then, you can do something like this:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
function ShowTimeoutWarning ()
{
window.alert( "Oh-ho!Session Expiring!" );
window.location.href = "your_start_page.aspx";
}
<%
if
( HttpContext.Current.Session["SessionTestVar"].ToString()!=null )
{

Response.Write( "setTimeout('ShowTimeoutWarning();', " +
( Session.Timeout *
60000 ).ToString() + " );" );
}
else
{
Response.Redirect("your_start_page.aspx", true);
}
%>



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