How long should a login cookie last?
Normally in ASP.Net the session cookies are set with a 20 minute timeout. That’s usually pretty good. Depending on your app, you may want a javascript timer as well. Otherwise the browser won’t understand when it’s logged out until a page refresh happens and sensitive data can be exposed.
Does a cookie get deleted when it expires?
A cookie with no expiration date specified will expire when the browser is closed. These are often called session cookies because they are removed after the browser session ends (when the browser is closed). Cookies with an expiration date in the past will be removed from the browser.
Is the expiration date of a cookie sufficient?
The expiry on the cookie is not sufficient, as it can be changed by the client. If you need to store a session expiration client side, it needs to be encrypted in the value of the cookie, so again needs to be created server-side, not by JavaScript, because the server must be the only place the value can be decrypted in order for it to be secure.
How to Set Cookie with expire time in JavaScript?
I am setting a cookie by Javascript and it is working fine but it is not taking the expire time I am giving. It keeps on taking session value regardless of what I give, below is the code which I took from here
How to set expiration of identity cookie in ASP.NET?
This can be seen on the source code for the builder extensions of the Identity middleware here on GitHub. In that case the options needed to configure how the underlying Cookie Authentication should work are encapsulated on the IdentityOptions and configured when setting up dependency injection.
How to change time span of identity Cookie?
To change the time span you do something like EDIT: The ExpireTimeSpan property is only used if when calling HttpContext.Authentication.SignInAsync we pass in an instance of AuthenticationProperties with IsPersistent set to true.