Re: use SOAP header for asp.net session state

Thanks for John's input.

Hi InvalidLastName,

I agree with John, actually XML webservice is designed as stateless and
connectionless. As for both application Cache or SessionState, they're
specific to the ASP.NET web application, ASP.NET include it in case both
the client and server-side use .net framework. When use SessionState, if
you use .net framework to generate the client proxy, it will use the
HttpWebRequest class to send/receive webservice request/response SOAP
message. And for HttpWebRequest class, it has a Cookie property which is of
CookieContainer type. This is how .net webservice client proxy keep the
cookie returned from server-side ASP.NET webservice(if we've used).

So the problem here is whether your webservice will be consumed by any
other non-dotnet platform? If so, using cookie is not a good idea, and so
far I haven't found any standard specification on use SOAP Header to
maintain cookie since it is not included in the webservice standard.

BTW, would you provide some further details on your scenario and why you
would use cookie (to keep any state) in your webservice client & server? I
think we may have a look for some other alternative approachs.

Please feel free to post here if you have any questions or other concerns.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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