Session State Timeouts.

[samsmithnz]

In my web.config file I have a line that controls the timeout in minutes:

<sessionState mode="InProc" stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424" sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;Trusted_Connection=yes" cookieless="false" timeout="180"/>

 

This example is set for 3 hours. I noticed a setting in IIS today (properties>Configuration>Options) where the session state timeout is set to 20 minutes. Does anyone know how these settings work together? Do they have to be the same or does one override the other...?

 

thanks.

[PlausiblyDamp]

The IIS setting only affects pages serverd by IIS (asp etc.) anything that is served by .Net will use the web.config setting.

[samsmithnz]

That's what I thought, thanks.