Session timeouts

Question

setting the timeout for a site vie the web.config to 60 minutes.

<SessionState mode="stateServer" ....... timeout="60">

how is this different then setting the timeout vie IIS 6.0??

Right click on website
go to properties
click on website tabe
connections section -> connection timeout: XXXXXX?

***If a set a different value in the web.config vrs IIS which value would be overriden?

Richard Friend · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-04T15:52:31.507

3

These two things are totally different, Connection timeout is the maximum time a connection can be kept open before it is terminated.

A Session timeout is the amount of time a session is kept alive before it is abandoned.

Update as requested

I think the OP is refering to Connection Timeout as in this image, rather than the classic asp session timout that is refered to in your link, this is how long a connection to the server wll be kept open, or another way of thinkning about it would be how long a request is allowed to take to execute..

enter image description here

edited Apr 04 '11 at 15:52

answered Apr 04 '11 at 14:51

Richard Friend

15,800
1
42
60

according to the links i Posted below the connection timeout is only used for classic asp. Can you explain what a connection timeout entails? thank you – gh9 Apr 04 '11 at 15:05
Thank you very much in clarifying! – gh9 Apr 04 '11 at 16:05

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

0

IIS Session Timeout vs ASP.NET Session Timeout

Session timeout in ASP.NET

Duplicated answers

edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

Community

1
1

answered Apr 04 '11 at 14:58

gh9

10,169
10
63
96

Session timeouts

2 Answers2