Is there any easy way to redirect to session expire page after session timeout without redirecting to formauthentication loginUrl

Question

I know we have form authentication to set loginUrl and when session expires it automatically redirects to this URL.

I have a requirement where I have to show different page on session expiration not login.aspx

I was searching for it but did not find any suitable easy to implement solutions.

I can't prefer to change to existing deployed site code behind and client want to implement this new SessionExpired.aspx page

I read http://www.schnieds.com/2009/07/aspnet-session-expiration-redirect.html , they have nice solution but I have to make change in .cs file that I don't want to do at least until I get any easy solution.

Is there any easy way to redirect to session expire page after form authentication timeout without redirecting to loginUrl?

Answer 1

After creating the SessionExpired.aspx page you need to add just a single line in head section in aspx (not .cs) of your pages. (I hope you have implemented master pages, so it will be added only at the master page)

<meta http-equiv="refresh"
   content="1201;url=http://yourdomain.com/SessionExpired.aspx" />

This line will automatically redirects the browser to SessionExpired page after 1201 seconds, ie 20 minutes