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  • Charlotte

    Connection Timeout IIS


    Hi,

    the connection timeout in my IIS (webserver in a LAN) is now 600
    (600 seconds = 10 minutes)

    I want to set the connectiontimeo ut to 3600 (1 hour)
    or
    may I set the timeout for 36000 seconds ? (10 hours)

    is this advisable ?


  • Jon Paal [MSMD]

    #2
    Re: Connection Timeout IIS

    hard to imagine the need for a 1 hr timeout but the folks over at iis will be better able to answer depending upon which iis version
    is in use

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    • Anthony Jones

      #3
      Re: Connection Timeout IIS


      "Charlotte" <charlotte.dele euw@SPAMtelenet .bewrote in message
      news:rQffj.1081 2$363.1978419@p hobos.telenet-ops.be...
      >
      Hi,
      >
      the connection timeout in my IIS (webserver in a LAN) is now 600
      (600 seconds = 10 minutes)
      >
      I want to set the connectiontimeo ut to 3600 (1 hour)
      or
      may I set the timeout for 36000 seconds ? (10 hours)
      >
      is this advisable ?
      No. The timeout refers to the length of inactivity on a connection, why
      would you want to maintain a connection that is inactive for a full 10 hours
      or even a whole hour?


      --
      Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET


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      • Bob Barrows [MVP]

        #4
        Re: Connection Timeout IIS

        Charlotte wrote:
        Hi,
        >
        the connection timeout in my IIS (webserver in a LAN) is now 600
        (600 seconds = 10 minutes)
        >
        I want to set the connectiontimeo ut to 3600 (1 hour)
        or
        may I set the timeout for 36000 seconds ? (10 hours)
        >
        is this advisable ?
        Are you talking about Session timeout? Please read this

        and let us know
        specifically which timeout property you are talking about.

        --
        Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
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        • Bob Barrows [MVP]

          #5
          Re: Connection Timeout IIS

          Charlotte wrote:
          Hi,
          >
          the connection timeout in my IIS (webserver in a LAN) is now 600
          (600 seconds = 10 minutes)
          >
          I want to set the connectiontimeo ut to 3600 (1 hour)
          or
          may I set the timeout for 36000 seconds ? (10 hours)
          >
          is this advisable ?
          Are you talking about Session timeout? Please read this and let us know
          specifically which timeout property you are talking about.

          --
          Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
          Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
          header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
          quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.


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          • Bob Barrows [MVP]

            #6
            Re: Connection Timeout IIS

            Charlotte wrote:
            Hi,
            >
            the connection timeout in my IIS (webserver in a LAN) is now 600
            (600 seconds = 10 minutes)
            >
            I want to set the connectiontimeo ut to 3600 (1 hour)
            or
            may I set the timeout for 36000 seconds ? (10 hours)
            >
            is this advisable ?
            Are you talking about Session timeout? Please read this

            and let us know
            specifically which timeout property you are talking about.

            As to whether it is advisable, I cannot think of a situation where I
            would want to increase a timeout to 10 hours ... any timeout.
            --
            Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
            Please reply to the newsgroup. The email account listed in my From
            header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
            quicker response by posting to the newsgroup.


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            • Charlotte

              #7
              Re: Connection Timeout IIS

              Are you talking about Session timeout? Please read this

              and let us know specifically which timeout property you are talking about.
              we've got an admin-page (password-protected - ASP + MDB)
              when the user is logged in to do his admin-work

              but when he's doing nothing for a period of time
              and then after .... minutes, he will do some work again
              the script tell's him to login again

              witch "time" do i have to increase ?

              (sorry for my english)

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              • Bob Barrows [MVP]

                #8
                Re: Connection Timeout IIS

                Charlotte wrote:
                >Are you talking about Session timeout? Please read this
                >>
                http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general...ut-values.html
                >and let us know specifically which timeout property you are talking
                >about.
                >
                we've got an admin-page (password-protected - ASP + MDB)
                when the user is logged in to do his admin-work
                >
                but when he's doing nothing for a period of time
                and then after .... minutes, he will do some work again
                the script tell's him to login again
                >
                witch "time" do i have to increase ?
                >
                I can only guess. It depends on how the application code is establishing
                and maintaining the login period.

                If the application code is using Session ID to determine if a user is
                signed on or not, then it's Session timeout you need to be looking at.
                You definitely do not want to be allowing sessions to be opened for too
                long because each session consumes resources on your web server.

                In a LAN environment, I'm not sure why you are making your users sign
                in. Why not use Windows Authentication and shut off Anonymous access.
                This will not solve the problem with sessions timing out but it will
                make things a little less annoying for your users.


                --
                Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
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                • Bob Barrows [MVP]

                  #9
                  Re: Connection Timeout IIS

                  Charlotte wrote:
                  >Are you talking about Session timeout? Please read this
                  >>
                  http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general...ut-values.html
                  >and let us know specifically which timeout property you are talking
                  >about.
                  >
                  we've got an admin-page (password-protected - ASP + MDB)
                  when the user is logged in to do his admin-work
                  >
                  but when he's doing nothing for a period of time
                  and then after .... minutes, he will do some work again
                  the script tell's him to login again
                  >
                  witch "time" do i have to increase ?
                  >
                  This article may also be helpful:


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                  Microsoft MVP -- ASP/ASP.NET
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                  header is my spam trap, so I don't check it very often. You will get a
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