What is the best workaround for the ASP.NET forms authentication timeout when using wildcard mapping? -
my team working on crappy old website , of pages still asp classic. however, we've migrated forms authentication using asp.net , wildcard mapping. works surprisingly except 1 thing: logged in users timing out quickly. after looking in logs appears people timing out after 20 minutes (which specified timeout due inactivity). so, our hypothesis asp classic pages not tripping whatever mechanism in forms authentication framework resets inactivity timer. i've googled around , read wildcard mapping post great gu still can't find else having problem. so, 1) have ever seen problem? , 2) what's best workaround? (other manually placing hidden frame in every janky asp page loads dumb .net page in background) update : slidingexpiration set true also : can't use perpetual sessions because need application time out after 20 minutes of inactivity. also, terrible site written interface stored in page. there's no simple piece of interface code slip javascript ...