Re: FOLLOW UP : Forms Authentication Randomly Times Out (Windows 2003)

From: Pete (pete)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:03:15 -0000

Well there goes my theory on the patch.

My site was same, worked flawlessly for months then all of a sudden I get
this issue.
Strangly it is still ok on my XP box so I know it's not code. I still want
ot use the built
in Forms authentication rather than code my own but if Microsoft can't help
out (hint hint)
then I might have to rewite it all.

One other thing I did notice last night was that I could re-establish a
session after closing the browser and re-opening again. I guess this just
shows that the cookie has been persisted correctly and can still
authenticate the user. Unfortunatley I still got a random timeout a few
minutes later......

Another option I was thinking of was moving hosting provider, could be just
a way my host has configured something, but I'm not 100% sure.

I'll let you know if this ever gets sorted, but I'm not holding my breath as
it's been the best part of a month now.

Microsoft please help us........

regards

Pete 

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"Joe Audette" <respondtojoe_audette@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1153501c3bf69$73e059a0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> It doesn't look like we have that patch on our server.
> We're not using FrontPage extensions. I'll be interested
> to hear if you ever find a fix. I was not able to so I
> had to scrap the automatic re-direction to login from the
> web.config files and code my own checks and re-direction.
> The difference with the login may be because we are using
> win2k server, but the problem started suddenly after
> running a long time with no problems. Its like the server
> loses the session state context intermittently.
> I've been trapping errors where references to
> Context.User results in a not an instance of an object
> error, but then just a fraction of a second later in my
> exception handler I'm able to determine who the user is
> by Context.User
> Weird!!! I wish the Microsoft guys would respond to this
> but I guess they won't until it affects more users.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Joe
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi Joe,
> >
> >Thanks for the reply. I've tested and I don't seem to be
> able to resume a
> >session again after being redirected back to the logon
> page.
> >
> >I've tried pretty much everything, the only thing could
> be........has your
> >server got the Microsoft Security patch " Q813380"
> >http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813380 installed? I
> seemed to have these
> >problems after this patch was applied (can't be 100%
> sure though).  Although
> >it doesn't sound like it should affect anything I guess
> anything is
> >possible. If you do have this patch could you let me
> know and I'll then try
> >applying to my XP dev box here to see if the issue can
> be replicated.
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >Pete
> >
> >
> >
> >"Joe Audette" <respondtojoe_audette@yahoo.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:0fee01c3be76$a9841590$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I am having the same apparent problem using framework
> 1.1
> >> on win2k server. User's randomly get sent to the login
> >> page when they are not logged out. Although they get
> sent
> >> to the login page they are not really logged out, if
> they
> >> click a link to the page they were on they get right
> back
> >> in without logging in again. You might check and see if
> >> your situation is the same, that is are they truly
> logged
> >> out or just directed to the login page.
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >>
> >> Joe Audette
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >Hi,
> >> >I didn't get any responses from the first post I made
> >> about this so I've
> >> >done a bit more investigation but I'm still having
> >> problems (but only in
> >> >Production (Win 2003) not development (XP Pro)). This
> >> leads me to think it's
> >> >a server config issue rather than code problem. Anyway
> >> here's the
> >> >problem....hope you can help.
> >> >
> >> >My logged on users are randomly kicked out of my
> secure
> >> pages well before
> >> >the auth cookie expires. The persist cookie is working
> >> as I can see it
> >> >stored in the browser cache. Apparently their Forms
> >> Authenicated session has
> >> >expired however & there seems to be no pattern as to
> >> when it expires.
> >> >
> >> >The standard user "Session" appears to be fine and
> lasts
> >> for the configured
> >> >length in Web.Config.
> >> >
> >> >Here's what I've tried....
> >> >
> >> >Changing the Forms Cookie name & Timeout.
> >> >Checking all code (it works exactly as expected on my
> XP
> >> Pro box)
> >> >Asked hosting provider if they broke it (said they
> >> didn't)
> >> >
> >> >Is it possible that a setting in Machine.Config could
> be
> >> causing me these
> >> >issues? If so what section would it be?
> >> >
> >> >Any ideas at all would be appreciated as I'm really
> >> stuck with this and my
> >> >users are not so happy.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >thanks for looking
> >> >
> >> >Pete
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >.
> >> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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