Question

i have web app and on session timeout and user interaction on the page, this needs to redirect to home/landing page

solutions found on the net

1) Session check in page_load of all the aspx pages of the application.
2) code in session start of global.asax

public void Session_Start    
{
        Response.Redirect("home.aspx");
        // or Server.Transfer("home.aspx");
}

I am going for 2nd option,let me know
1) whether i am in right way or any better solutions for this?
2) in the second option whether to use Response.Redirect or Server.Transfer

-Thanks

Answer 1

Why don’t you use JavaScript to do it? you can use setTimeout method like

<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout('window.location = "home.aspx"', 3000);
</script>

Put the above js code block into the page header which 3000 is your session timeout.