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Basically I am interacting with a .NET web application and I want to know what is the session timeout of that server.

I know that usually for IIS 6 is between 8-20 minutes by default but I want the specific timeout without speculating or keeping timers etc. Thanks in advance.

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  • From the browser you want to know the session time out? – paparazzo Jul 24 '12 at 14:52
  • I don't think this is possible. I'd use a timer with a conservative value. – Icarus Jul 24 '12 at 14:57
  • Thanks a lot for your answers, I was thinking of somehow sending a specific request to the server and the server would reply with this variable. However, timer is the only way I guess. – Clyde Jul 24 '12 at 15:10
  • Also I am not sure that the timeout is hard and fast. I think timeouts are often treated as a time after which you are allowed to ditch it. Usually it won't be far off but it depends what precision you want the answer to be. I know this mainly from doing some experiments with timeouts set to 5 seconds to test some stuff. :) – Chris Jul 24 '12 at 15:53

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I don't think is possible unless the server explicitly has provisions to allow it (expose it) to the front-end querying the server's services...

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