i am new in asp.net form authentication and sessions i would like to know how to save session in masterpage or in global.asax and how to clear session how to better handle session timeout by redirecting to a page this is my web.config session settings <sessionState mode="InProc" cookieless="false" timeout="1"></sessionState> code in my masterpage if (Request.Url.AbsolutePath.EndsWith("SessionExpired.aspx", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)) { HtmlMeta meta = new HtmlMeta(); meta.HttpEquiv = "Refresh"; meta.Content = "7; URL=./Login.aspx"; Page.Header.Controls.Add(meta); } else HttpContext.Current.Response.AppendHeader("Refresh", Convert.ToString((Session.Timeout * 60)) + "; Url=./Public/SessionExpired.aspx");