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**higginbt** · 06-27-2006, 12:42 PM

I have a page that holds sensative information about users.

I want the page to not display ie redirect to another page after a certain amount of inactive time has passed.

Is this possible in ASP or is this better left to something like Javascript.

Either way are they any dangers that doing this would open up.

**chrishirst** · 06-27-2006, 03:42 PM

Can't be done with ASP at all.

**Dark-Skys99** · 06-28-2006, 09:07 AM

Should be able to achieve this using javascript, like as follows..

HTML Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
setTimeout("window.location = 'http://www.google.com/'",30000);
</script>

Eg. that would redirect to google after 30 seconds (1 second = 1000)

But ofcourse you would need to account for the fact that if users are entering information on the page they are likely to take longer.. so for example have it so if the user presses a key or clicks anything it resets the timer, but thats the basic idea.

More info on setTimeout here.. http://www.htmlite.com/JS018.php

**higginbt** · 07-03-2006, 06:00 AM

hi thanks Dark-skys99.

In the end i did in fact use javascript i had a simple counter counting down from 2.5 minutes from the instance the page opened.

The time would reset to 2.5 minutes continue couting down if the user moved the mouse. As there is no input on the screen i figured that 2.5 minutes more than long enough for a user to look at the screen and take it all in.

I could post the code perhaps if a mod would like to move this to the java script forum.

**ADAM Web Design** · 07-03-2006, 12:17 PM

There is a non-Javascript way to do this.

Code:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3;url='http://www.lightenupontario.ca/" />

Where 3 is the value in seconds.

The problem is that the web browser has to support redirects, and some people configure theirs not to.

**higginbt** · 07-03-2006, 12:43 PM

Adam correct me if i'm wrong, but that method redirects after 3 seconds whether or not the user is inactive. I only want to redirect after a set amount of time inactivity from the user.

so this is how i did it. I know its Javascript and this is ASP but no biggy right.
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>

</head>
<body onload="timer()" onmousemove="detime()">