I'm running a ASP.NET website on my development box (.NET 2.0 on Vista/IIS7).
The Session_Start method in global.asax.cs logs every call to a file (log4net).
The Session_End method also logs every call.
I'm using InProc session state, and set the session timeout to 5 mins (to avoid waiting for 20 mins).
I hit the website, wait for 5 minutes unit I see the Session_End logging. Then I F5 the website. The browsers still has the session cookie and sends it to the server. Session_Start is called and a new session is created using the same session id (btw: I need this to be the same session id, because it is used to store data in database).
Result:
Every time I hit F5 on a previously ended session, the Session_Start method is called.
When I open a different browser, the Session_Start method is called just once. Then after 5 minutes the Session_End each F5 causes the Session_Start method to execute.
Can anyone explain why this is happening?
Update:
After the Session timeout, all subsequent requests have a session start & session end. So in the end my question is: why are the sessions on these subsequent request closed immediatly?
2010-02-09 14:49:08,754 INFO Global.asax[7486] [(null)] - Session started. SID=nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq host=127.0.0.1
2010-02-09 14:49:08,754 INFO Global.asax[7486] [nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq] - Request start: GET http://localhost:80/js/settings.js
2010-02-09 14:49:08,756 INFO Global.asax[7486] [(null)] - Session ended. SID=nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq
2010-02-09 14:49:08,760 INFO Global.asax[7486] [(null)] - Session started. SID=nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq host=127.0.0.1
2010-02-09 14:49:08,760 INFO Global.asax[7486] [nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq] - Request start: GET /css/package.aspx?name=core
2010-02-09 14:49:08,761 INFO Global.asax[7486] [(null)] - Session ended. SID=nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq
2010-02-09 14:49:08,762 INFO Global.asax[7486] [(null)] - Session started. SID=nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq host=127.0.0.1
2010-02-09 14:49:08,762 INFO Global.asax[7486] [nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq] - Request start: GET /js/package.aspx?name=all
2010-02-09 14:49:08,763 INFO Global.asax[7486] [(null)] - Session ended. SID=nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq
2010-02-09 14:49:08,763 INFO Global.asax[7486] [(null)] - Session started. SID=nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq host=127.0.0.1
2010-02-09 14:49:08,763 INFO Global.asax[7486] [nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq] - Request start: GET /css/package.aspx?name=rest
2010-02-09 14:49:08,764 INFO Global.asax[7486] [(null)] - Session ended. SID=nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq
2010-02-09 14:49:08,764 INFO Global.asax[7486] [(null)] - Session started. SID=nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq host=127.0.0.1
2010-02-09 14:49:08,765 INFO Global.asax[7486] [nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq] - Request start: GET /css/package.aspx?name=vacation
2010-02-09 14:49:08,765 INFO Global.asax[7486] [(null)] - Session ended. SID=nzponumvf1hbaniverffp4mq
web.config relevant section:
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" />
<sessionState timeout="2" regenerateExpiredSessionId="false" />
</system.web>
