I have been looking at this for quite a while but no luck.

I am working on a web application using form based authentication. What I try to achieve is to redirect user to a certain page(e.g. login page, or message page showing user the application has timed out)automatically once the application has been idle for certain minutes.

Right now I can't get this done automatically, but it does take me to login page when I try to click any link on the idled web application and after login I was taken directly to the page I tried to get before login instead of the web application's entry point- this is not what I want.

Please advise! I appreciate.

Shane

I have seen this done before with a refresh timer.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="N">

where N is the number of seconds. You would set N to be the same number as your session timeout so that the page refreshes when the session times out.

In JSP you could do something like:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="<%= session.getMaxInactiveInterval() %>">

This will work with your current setup such that the user will then be redirected to your login page.

This is not the ideal solution but it's the only one I have come across.

Hope this helps.