Re: Session variable and IE

From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch_at_nospam.com)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:28:49 +0100

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:57:53 +0800, "William E Hatto"
<xxnospamxxweh@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>sorry, not sure which group this belongs too...
>
>I have a Win2k server running IIS on an Intranet. All clients are win2k
>using IE.
>My site uses a database for username authentication. On authentication the
>user's ID number is used as session variable. This is checked from page to
>page for authentication.
>
>Problem is some client machines see the session variable and some dont.
>Access to the pages depends on seeing the session variable.
>
>Why does it work on some machines and not others? I am stumped and do not
>know what to do. Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
>Cheers, Bill.

Bill,

Try this article :

Why won't my session variables stick?
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2157

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

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