Re: ASP IIS Session Hell

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From: David Wang [Msft] (someone_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/25/04

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    Sessions are maintained by cookies passed between the server and browser.
    If the server is not sending the session cookie, that is ASP configuration
    issue or bug. If the client is not returning the session cookie, that is
    client configuration/bug. It sounds like the cookies are not being passed
    back/forth (that's why "Page 2" got a totally new session ID). We need to
    check this.

    Please use WFetch or any other web-request-tool to make the request to "Page
    1" and verify that a cookie is sent by the server. Then, you need to get a
    Network trace of the interaction between the client and server to see if the
    client sends the cookie back to the server.

    One or both are not happening, and it is not clear which.

    Are you sure that you didn't ban site1 in IE somehow such that it drops its
    cookies? 

    -- 
//David
IIS
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Kenny Ashton" <ashtonCUTTHIS@ctv.es> wrote in message
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Hi Guru's
Problem: Lost session vars, no cookie operation
Platform: Tosh Laptop, Win2k, IIS4 (used at home for site development)
Structure: 3 sites off a common folder, with database folder common to
the 3 sites
c:\inetput\wwwroot\mysites\site1\index.htm  (127.0.0.10)
c:\inetput\wwwroot\mysites\site2\index.htm  (127.0.0.11)
c:\inetput\wwwroot\mysites\site3\index.htm  (127.0.0.12)
c:\inetput\wwwroot\mysites\database\common.mdb
I have tried evey suggestion on the entire internet, including
reinstalling IIS, IE6, MMC etc. Can anyone tell me what to try next.
Heres the rub - everything works perfectly on my ISP's server, all 3
sites. Site2 and site3 work perfectly on the laptop but site1, which
just suddenly stopped working on localhost with cookies failure.
I have tried removing the site, recreating the physical and virtual
folders and re-adding as a new site, with a different IP, everything
So I erased the site, and put two pages in the site1 root, as expected
I get -
<% ' Page 1
Session("sid") = Session.SessionID
Response.Redirect "page2.asp?sid=" & Session.SessionID
%>
<% ' Page 2
Response.write "Session(sid)=[" & Session("sid") & "]<br>"
Response.write "Request(sid)=[" & Request("sid") & "]<br>"
Response.write "Session.SessionID=[" & Session.SessionID & "]<br>"
%>
Page Two prints  -
-------------------------
Session(sid)=[] ' lost the session var contents
Request(sid)=[345404809] ' Original Page 1 ID
Session.SessionID=[345404810]  ' got incremented on page
But there is nothing else in the folder, so site1 now consists of just
these 2 pages. Tried different IP's, with/without globall.asa's
Netscape/IE6 both same, you name it, i probably tried it.
If anyone can suggest what the hell might be going on, or at least how
to test next, I will deeply appreciate it.
Kenny
Why do people call me with their PC problems, I can't even fix my own!
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