Security Time out - how to increase?
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Topic: Security Time out - how to increase?
Posted By: gpf000
Subject: Security Time out - how to increase?
Date Posted: 21 August 2008 at 10:33am
Some users are complaining that the forum times-out while they type out their post (with a single finger I think  ). When they Post the item it sends them back to the login screen and once logged back in their post is gone.Any idea how to increase the time out? One of them thinks it's about 20 minutes. Thanks Gary |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 August 2008 at 12:04pm
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To avoid the 20 minute session expiry you should get these users to use the full login page (not the quick login) and make sure that the auto login feature is enabled. They should then find they are never logged out again.
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Posted By: gpf000
Date Posted: 29 September 2008 at 10:59pm
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Hi Bruce, thanks for your advice. I manage the forum login via a separate database on the website which user's login into. I am not aware of the different login states you talk about. Is the login state held in a session variable that I can perhaps increase or alter in some way (to make them remain permanently online)? I am a reasonably competent ASP programmer, can you suggest some other variable or setting I can alter programmically to solve this issue? A lot more users are starting to complain now! Many thanks Gary |
Posted By: gpf000
Date Posted: 03 October 2008 at 9:07am
Hi, any luck with a solution or some ideas how to solve this problem anyone? Thanks |
gpf000 wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 03 October 2008 at 9:28am
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Best solution is try upgrading to the latest release. Version 8 has not been in development for well over a year and you may find that the new version offers better solutions such as the built in existing members API or the more powerful HTTP XML API which can be used to create a login cookie. It also sounds like you have modified the login system yourself which is why you are getting the issue you are, so not really able to help with support for your custom login as do not know your systems and how you coded it. Maybe possibly updating your custom login to avoid using sessions would fix the issue. If you are relying on sessions for your custom login and to keep users logged in then everytime the servers App Pool recycles all your users will get logged out, so I would avoid this if you can. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: gpf000
Date Posted: 03 October 2008 at 10:33am
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Thanks for the quick reply. You make some good points and have some good ideas. I'll look into some of these and try to do it differently. Many thanks Gary |