The Web Server

To run a USoft web application under a MS Internet Information Services (IIS) web server, a virtual folder must be created to serve the generated web pages. A virtual folder treats the physical directory as an application.

Under IIS, you can set the session timeout. When a client browser connects to IIS, a session is created, and for the next requests of this browser, IIS always takes the same session. Within this session object, USoft keeps the username and password of the user. This way, the user does not have to provide username and password for each request. A session timeout is the maximum amount of time the session is kept if there is no request from the client browser. The result is: if a user does not use its web application longer than this session timeout, the Login page is opened, to provide the username and password again.