Background:

I am using a Frameset for my intranet home page. When-ever a user refreshes page in mainframe, I check a session var on each page load to make sure the session has not expired, which it should do in 20 minutes.



Here is the problem, in the top frame – banner.aspx, I need to have <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="20"> in order to reload the banner page so that in the pageload event, I can run a SQL query to check some status and then display the results in the top page. Ie: Status is ON or Status is OFF.



This all works well, but now, it seems that the meta refresh is refreshing the session so that it never times out. I started with the frameset in .html, I have set enablesessionstate to false in the banner.aspx and I have also tried the frameset in .aspx, all with the same result, the session never expires because of the banner refresh.



Questions:

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can keep the banner frame refreshing with out refreshing the session for the other frames/pages?