Forms Auth and Timeout page

[Smokey Grindel]

I want to show a page that says you timed out basically when a user that is
authenticated via forms based authentication times out (after 60 minutes of
inactivity) how do you do this? right now it just redirects to the login
screen, I want it to tell them why first. thanks!

 

[bruce barker]

the default forms authentication timeouts via the cookie expiring, so
there is no difference between exire and never logged in. you can change
the authentication cookie to have a timeout value that is less the
cookie expire so you can detect the expire.

if you don't want to write the new cookie logic, you could add a second
cookie to keep the info. just update on every page request.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)