Re: Won't save session object

From: Schoo (scott.schuman_at_nospam.ma-hc.com)
Date: 02/18/04

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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:25:37 -0600

I am going to read the links you provided on session state and cookies and
develop a test application which may take me a few days to finish (I have
other projects pending), but I wanted to add these comments and get the
group's input:

Marina and Cheng both commented that the workstations need to have cookies
enabled. The symptoms of the issue don't support that as a problem and here
is why: When I am sitting at the test server and run the program with the
URL: http://localhost/program.aspx it runs the session objects fine, but if
I use http://>/program.aspx it will not store state. Also, I
can run the program on the development workstation in debug mode, but I
can't run it on the same server accross the network from the test server.

I will do the research which will take me some time, but I don't see why
this is such a big problem. In classic ASP I used to just create my session
objects and go. Did Microsoft really complicate this so much that I will
need to take hours to learn the new architecture? Isn't there just
something in web.config or IIS that I can change to make these work right?
Here is the session state object in my web.config file:

<sessionState
    mode="InProc"
    stateConnectionSTring="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
    sqlConnectionSTring="data source=127.0.0.1;Trusted_Connection=yes"
    cookieless="false"
    timeout="20"
/>

I just want to pass a variable through a session state. My question is:
what is the simplest way to get that done so I can let my beta-group test
this?

Scott

"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <v-schang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:GHqstmc9DHA.704@cpmsftngxa07.phx.gbl...
> Hi Scott,
>
>
> Thanks for posting in the community!
> From your description, you found your web application's sessionstate not
> work when it is visited by some certain workstation client side on your
> side,yes?
> If there is anything I misunderstood, please feel free to let me know.
>
> As for the problem you mentioned, I think Marina's suggesion is quite
> informative, as he mentioned that this problem is likely due to those
> client machine's cookie setting.
>
> In fact, the ASP.NET's session is by default associated with all the
client
> machine via cookie variable named "ASP.NET_SessionId" which identitfy the
> unique session id of the certain user. If the client machien has disabled
> the cookie in its browser, that'll cause the client unable to associate
its
> sessionstate on the serverside, then we'll found the session not work. So
> would you please try checking the client's browser to see whether the
> cookie has been disabled?
> You can check in the Browser's setting. In IE, you can find the setting in
> the tools-->interntet options-->privacy setting panel and see whether
> you've block the certain site's cookie
>
> Also, another means to detect the cookie is to write some code in a
certain
> ASP.NET page to write a certain cookie variable and then retrieve back it
,
> for example:
> if(!IsPostBack)
> {
> Response.Cookies.Add(new HttpCookie(...));
> }
> else
> {
> //get the certain cookie via Request.Cookies[...].Value;
> }
>
> If unable to retrieve the cookie from clientside again, there must be
> something incorrect with the client's cookie setting.
>
> In addtion, here are some tech artielcs on ASP.NET session and cookie
> implementation:
>
> #Underpinnings of the Session State Implementation in ASP.NET
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnetsessionstate.asp?f
> rame=true
>
> #basics of cookies in asp.net
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechar
> t/html/vbtchaspnetcookies101.asp
>
> #Enabling Cookieless Session State in ASP.NET
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20030318ASPNET
> RH/manifest.xml
>
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/PrintSearchContent.asp?LINKID=401
>
> Hope they're helpful.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Cheng
> Microsoft Online Support
>
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