Setting up web.config for forms authentication
In web.config file, set the sessionstate mode to inproc and authentication mode to Forms
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true"/>
<authentication mode="Forms"/>
<sessionState mode="InProc" cookieless="false" timeout="1">
</sessionState>
</system.web>
I've created three pages in this example , one is login page , when
session expires , i redirect to this page , one is navigation page
where i'll check if session is valid or not , if it is valid than only
user will see this page other wise he gets redirected to login page
Code for Default.aspx
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"
CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:Button ID="btnSessionStart"
runat="server"
OnClick="btnSessionStart_Click"
Text="Start Session" /><br />
<br />
<br />
<asp:Button ID="btnCheck"
runat="server"
OnClick="btnCheck_Click"
Text="Check Session ID" />
<br />
<asp:TextBox ID="txtSession"
runat="server"
Width="266px">
</asp:TextBox><br />
<br />
<asp:Button ID="btnGO"
runat="server"
OnClick="btnGO_Click"
Text="Go to Other Page" />
<br />
<br />
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
And the code behind for this page is like
protected void btnSessionStart_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Guid Session_id = Guid.NewGuid();
Session["SessionID"]= Session_id.ToString();
}
protected void btnCheck_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (Session["SessionID"] != null)
txtSession.Text = Session["SessionID"].ToString();
else
txtSession.Text = "Session has expired";
}
protected void btnGO_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Redirect("Default2.aspx");
}
Now the page where we want to check the session has timed out or not,
we need to check it in the Page_Init event of the page , is session is
not null than only user will be able to go to the page other wise he
will get redirected to login page
In this page I've just put a button to go to home page
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<asp:Button ID="btnHome"
runat="server" OnClick="btnHome_Click"
Text="Home" /></div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
And the Code behind for this page is
protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
CheckSession();
}
protected void btnHome_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Redirect("Default.aspx");
}
private void CheckSession()
{
if (Session["SessionID"] == null)
{
Response.Redirect("Login.aspx");
}
}
Conclusion
If we need to check this in all the pages of application than we can
create a BaseClass and write the above mentioned code of CheckSession
and Page_Init part and drive all ur pages from this class by typing
BaseClassName in place of System.Web.UI.Page and it will check all
pages for session timeout every time page is loaded
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