HttpModule to keep a session alive

Question

User640374800 posted

I am working with an httpmodule ive created with the aim of keeping a users session alive with a call to an existing validatesession method in the application.

2 issues i am having is firstly i cannot seem to get the users sessionid (a static class), this sessionid is always returning as an empty guid even after it is set in the logon controller.

secondly i do not seem to be able to instantiate the class i need to call the validatesession method. we use simple injector and i am doing a new registration (as i have no constructor to pass the instance across)... but this (_useraccount) seems to always be null....

var container = new Container();
            container.Register<IUserAccount, UserAccount>();
            _useraccount = container.GetInstance<IUserAccount>();

Not sure if i am utilising the right event, im using the beginrequest event in my httpmodule....

any advice?

Answer 1

User475983607 posted

I can't make sense of this approach.  The Session Id is stored in a cookie in the user's browser. Session timeout rolls when the user makes a request.  A module handles HTTP request and also fires when the user makes a request.  If the user is already making a request, the module is redundant.

Why not simply increase the Session timeout in the web.config?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.sessionstate.httpsessionstate.timeout(v=vs.110).aspx

Maybe explain the problem you are trying to solve at a high level.