or u can just use an ordinary javascripting timer
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Browse All Topicsi need help in findout out if session is about to expiry, Let say the timeout is 20 minutes, after 18 idle minutes a window will appear saying that in 2 minutes the session will expire. THe user can press OK to extend the timeout otherwise timeout will expire and redirect to a page.
can anybody please give some solid solution to it?
i have 50 pages and i wanto add to all those pages.
appreciate any help.
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1.Create a BasePage class
2. In the page_load register this javascript (modify it to your needs it terms of timing
1000 = second so depending on standard timeout time set this figure accordlingly
<script type="text/javascript><!--
function SessionAlert()
{
alert("Your Session will time out in 5 minutes");
}
setTimeOut("SessionAlert",
// --></script>
3. Let all your pages inherit from the base page
see this link http://osdir.com/ml/user-g
you can combine the session alert with the keep alive by instead of using an alert to inform the user that session is going to expire by using a confirm, and on the true part, calling the javascript from the example
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by: peterdunganPosted on 2007-05-25 at 07:23:11ID: 19157075
you could use an ajax timer if you install the asp.net ajax extensions