Redirect User Before Session.Timeout

kwilliams · June 30th, 2006, 01:29 PM

I have a page that's written in ASP with VB syntax. I'd like to create a script or function that redirects the user to a logoff page before their session.timeout = 0. That's because the logoff page will add a 'False' flag to a DB table in SQL Server 2k with the use of their AccountID. Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? Thanks for any help.

KWilliams

Dj Kat · June 30th, 2006, 03:45 PM

Hi,

Are you saying you want a user to automaticly log of when the session time is over. I think you should use clientside javascript for this problem I think you can't accomplish this throuh asp vb only

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kwilliams · June 30th, 2006, 04:10 PM

Hello DjKat,

I actually did find a JavaScript solution for this at http://www.eggheadcafe.com/forums/F...D=74538&INTID=3.

This solution works great at notifying the user when their session is about to timeout. This is because my site is dynamic, so each page is loaded as a script from the one main page currentpage.asp. Here's the code:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

</script>

Response.Write("<body onLoad=""setTimeout('checker()', 10000);"">")

I also used a simple server-side script to redirect the user when the session has timed out:

If Session("Group") = "" Then
Response.Redirect("logoff.asp")
End If

So now I'll set the times to work with the standard 20 minute timeout, and it should work fine. Thanks for your input.

KWilliams

erobb · July 1st, 2006, 01:18 PM

Im just thinking out loud.

How about using the global asa and when the session expires there you tell the server to redirect them to a page. Of course you have already set the data you need in cookies on their browser so just because the session has expired does not mean you still dont have access to the info you need.

Earl
www.jhdesigninc.com