title: ASP.NET Why are sessions timing out, sessionstate timeout set
body: <p>Hey I have the following line in my web.config</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;sessionState mode="InProc" timeout="45"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which I thought would keep sessions intact for 45 mins</p>
  
  <p>But I have seen the case where if a user is inactive for lets say 15 mins the sessions times out.</p>
  
  <p>How can I stop this ?</p>
  
  <p>Edit : Just noticed I have the following line in the master page</p>
  
  <p>meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1800;URL=http://www.virtualacademy.ie/login.aspx"></p>
  
  <p>Maybe this is causing the issue, what is the above line doing i.e the number 1800</p>