image

About the ASP.NET Persistent Authentication Cookies Timeout

September 9, 2009
Most people using ASP.NET Form Authentication use the built-in <asp:Login> control that works fine but when we use a custom login form we have the follofing problem: the cookie expiration timeout in ASP.NET Forms Authentication for persistent and non-persistent sessions uses the same value. It is defined in Web.config in the timeout attribute of the