Not sure if this is the right forum.

I am using the ASP.NET Website Programming book and installed the software.

I changed the session timeout to 2 minutes and went into the news/view headlines page. I also set trace to true and found even 30 minutes later my 4 session variables were still there.

Why is that?

Thanks,

Tom

After 30 minutes of what? Session will timeout based on inactivity. Session timeout is known as a rolling timeout. It will expire X minutes after the last request.

-Peter

AFter 30 minutes of not touching the browser.

Here is an example.

At about 12:30pm I opened up the demo project (thePhile) and went set 2 pages to trace. I have the application folder set as Web Sharing (as was in the book).

I then brought up the App and moved to the News view headlines and copied the trace information. I then left for lunch and came back and moved to another page. Same information, same session ID.

Here is the session information from the webConfig file:

    <sessionState
            mode="InProc"
            stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
            sqlConnectionString="Persist Security Info=False;Data Source=Dino\SQL2K;Initial Catalog=thePhile;User ID=sa;Password=tfstom;"
            cookieless="false"
            timeout="2"

Here is the trace information (note the time).

At Session Id: 1xrwe245f0mym3ak3mfftnrx Request Type: GET
Time of Request: 6/3/2005 12:35:50 PM Status Code: 200
Request Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8) Response Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)

ThePhile 1115B2147ED8A8D320E9F7C4024F891FC20A8AF2BCFB5205C0 876CECCD7D1BB536C4D8937C98F86ADF015C10D46304E9314F 725848737F9B07AF8D24B9B4F1662837EDBF4153E60D4656D3 343E4EAFE050A2AE9D63DBC7D7F6C5649F3E890FF6 201
Polls_Question20 71 19
ASP.NET_SessionId 1xrwe245f0mym3ak3mfftnrx 42
ASPSESSIONIDAQBRQQAC DGKFIIFANOCJDDBOIJKOBLND 45

Came back from lunch (not the time again).

Session Id: 1xrwe245f0mym3ak3mfftnrx Request Type: GET
Time of Request: 6/3/2005 1:52:42 PM Status Code: 200
Request Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8) Response Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)

ThePhile 1115B2147ED8A8D320E9F7C4024F891FC20A8AF2BCFB5205C0 876CECCD7D1BB536C4D8937C98F86ADF015C10D46304E9314F 725848737F9B07AF8D24B9B4F1662837EDBF4153E60D4656D3 343E4EAFE050A2AE9D63DBC7D7F6C5649F3E890FF6 201
Polls_Question20 71 19
ASP.NET_SessionId 1xrwe245f0mym3ak3mfftnrx 42
ASPSESSIONIDAQBRQQAC DGKFIIFANOCJDDBOIJKOBLND 45

Why didn't the session time out?

Is there something else set that prevents that from happening?

Thanks,

Tom

Tom,

That looks like cookie data.

Session IDs do funny things sometimes.

-Peter