Re: Is there a way to obtain a Session object other than the current one ?

From: Dale (daleDeletepres_at_msndotcomNot.Net)
Date: 08/08/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 20:24:16 -0500

Go back to my first reply. I have done it that way successfully.

Dale Preston
MCAD, MCSE, MCDBA

"SFX" <noreply@softwarefx.com> wrote in message
news:eLaUuWOfEHA.2812@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > You say that you can't send using the "same headers of the current
page".
> > But there is no such thing as the "headers of the current page". Pages
> don't
> > have headers, requests and responses do. In fact, it's likely that
several
> > requests and responses are responsible for the objects on the page
> (images,
> > scripts, stylesheets, etc.)
>
> When I said "same headers of the current page" I should have said "the
> headers that were sent to the server when the html page currently being
> displayed inside the browser was requested". I just thought I could
> abbreviate a little.
>
> > Give it some thought. It's not too surprising that you have a problem
> trying
> > to get the control to act like the page, since it isn't actually the
page.
> > Instead, perhaps you can get the page to be itself. Keeping the
> > functionality with the object to which it most naturally belongs is one
> > definition of encapsulation (of function).
>
>
> I have (given it a lot of thought !). I think you are assuming a little
too
> much based just in my posting, which I made as concrete as possible in
hopes
> of getting a concrete answer.
>
> Let me try to explain the headers ordeal in more detail.
>
> Imagine you have a page like this:
>
> <BODY>
> <img src="/MyImage.gif"/>
> </BODY>
>
> When a request for MyImage.gif is sent to the server, ALL OF THE RELEVANT
> headers such as cookies, user, user agent, etc. are sent JUST as when the
> page containing this image tag was requested (more or less, anyways, new
> cookies could have been created in the current request, but that's too
much
> detail for this discussion).
>
> This is all I want. I (the client control) want to be like the <img> tag.
> The <img> is not the page an yet it makes the request the way I want to
make
> it. So I'm not trying to be the page, if anything I'm trying to be an
<img>
> tag. That's not too much to ask, is it ?
>
> > Is it possible for a hosted Windows Forms control to raise events which
> are
> > handled in script in the same page?
>
> No. Not managed anyways, a call to explorer (to execute the script) is
> considered un-managed. In an ActiveX control, there is absolutely no
> problem, I can get a hold of the Browser interface and tell it to make the
> request for me instead of doing it myself, this way I don't have to worry
> about headers. Unfortunately, there is nothing similar in .NET. (I can do
it
> unmanaged but then my control would require full-trust which misses the
> point of .NET controls).
>
> Anyways, I did not intend to go into this discussion about headers and
> client controls in this posting for two reasons:
>
> 1) I already know pretty much what can and can't be done.
> 2) This is an ASP.NET forum, not Windows Form.
>
> I just fell compelled to explain the reason for my need.
>
> My original question remains unanswered:
>
> Can I get a session object for a session other than the current assuming I
> have the id for such session.
>
> If the answer is no, why ?
>
> It was nice talking to you.
>
> --
> FP
> Software FX
>
>

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