extending session

[lychew]

I have visited some sites that prompt users to extend their session. Anybody know how it's been done? I really need help on this.

[Achichincle]

I think they have some kind of an object that tracks the idle time (client-side) and then prompts the user when they've been idle for a time that is close to the session timeout setting. Does that make sense?

[lychew]

One way to do this is thru cookies. But i'm using session object in ASP. So i'm trying to use the session_onEnd event to achieve the same effect. Unfortunately, there's some limitation on this event that does not run the function response.redirect when the session is ended??

[Achichincle]

Well... I think Response.Redirect won't work since you've already written out all your HTML headers no? And since it's on the server-side I don't think it'll let you control the client...

Maybe some Javascript timer-like function that gets kicked off whenever you load a page and then if the time expires it pops up a message box?