Backoffice Times Out Too Quickly

[benehudson]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

9.3 and 10.1 (really 9.0 and up)

Bug summary

I've set the timeout in appsettings.json to 08:00:00 However, I get abruptly logged out of the office sometimes after only a few (less than) 10 mins. Also, no amount of activity in the back office seems to extend the timeout. I know I'm not alone, I posted in the forum and others have mentioned they're experiencing the same timeout issue.

I've been using Umbraco since v6 days. This is an issue I haven't had in any version before v9.

https://our.umbraco.com/forum/using-umbraco-and-getting-started/109742-backoffice-timeout

Specifics

Any page in the back office. I'll be in the middle of making changes and it boots me to the login screen. Strangely if I hard refresh the login page, at this point, it'll take me back into the backoffice (without me logging in). But, when I click any button in the back office it'll boot me back to the login page again. Frustratingly any unsaved work is lost. This happens to me several times per day...sometimes multiple times per hour.

Steps to reproduce

From my experience every time I'm in the backoffice for a while I get uncerimoniously kicked out to the login screen.

Expected result / actual result

Expected: Would like to see the backoffice do two things. 1) Extend the timeout when I'm active in the backoffice (every time I send something to the server...extend the timeout). 2) The backoffice timeout to honor the appsettings.json

Actual: I get kicked out quicker than a drunk kid at a college bar.

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This item has been added to our backlog AB#22569

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[nikolajlauridsen]

This sounds very much like the issue fixed in #12029 (released in 9.4) I'd recommend upgrading to the latest minor 😀

[benehudson]

Thanks @nikolajlauridsen #12029 says it's fixed in v9. I have the same issue in v10+ If it was fixed in v9 shouldn't that mean the fix would already be in v10?

[nikolajlauridsen]

Hmm indeed it should, so there might be something afoot. I double-checked the code on the v10/dev branch just to be sure, and the amends are there, so the fix is definitely there.

[nikolajlauridsen]

Hey @benehudson I've had some time to take a look at this today, but unfortunately, I'm not able to reproduce this. When I set the TimeOut property in the global settings like so

"Global": {
        "DefaultUILanguage": "en-us",
        "HideTopLevelNodeFromPath": true,
        "UmbracoPath": "~/umbraco",
        "TimeOut": "08:00:00",
        "UseHttps": false,
        "Id": "5e8eebbd-d035-4b19-b797-39ec05ab273c"
      },

I don't get logged out prematurely, I've tried:

With the code in v10/dev: Hosting the site on windows, using both Chrome And Firefox Hosting the site on Manjaro Linux, using Firefox

I've also tried creating a site using the templates with the latest version (10.2.1), and with the same results, I don't get logged out of the backofffice prematurely.

All of these different configs were tested for well over an hour, with no errant behavior.

It seems that no matter what I do I can't seem to reproduce the issue, are you using some sort of custom setup I'm missing?

[nul800sebastiaan]

Just as an idea, if this happens so often, maybe there's browser extensions doing something? Cookie extensions, adblocker extensions? I've only had this happen once while I was working on a blog post and it was exactly after I had not touched the backoffice for 20 minutes (luckily a quick login got me going again without losing my changes).

If it's not browser extensions then yes, please try to see if you have any custom configs and maybe inspect your cookies to see what expiry dates they get when you set the timeout to 8 hours.

[kjac]

This has indeed been fixed 😄

• With "TimeOut": "00:00:30" I am logged out almost instantly.
• With "TimeOut": "00:01:00" I am logged out after approximately 30 seconds.
• With "TimeOut": "00:02:00" I am logged out after approximately 1½ minutes.
• With "TimeOut": "00:04:00" I am logged out after approximately 3½ minutes.

This makes sense because anything below 30 seconds of remaining logged-in time is considered as being logged out - see https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/v11/contrib/src/Umbraco.Web.UI.Client/src/common/services/user.service.js#L64.