cookieless messes up session - what's going on?

Robert Paris

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Mar 8, 2001, 12:48:50 PM3/8/01

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When I use an out of process session, but set cookieless="false" then
everything works.
The moment I change my config.web to have cookieless="true" none of my
session variables are saved from page to page. it logs me out because it
cannot find the session variables anymore.
any ideas?

Al Manint

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Mar 8, 2001, 2:11:29 PM3/8/01

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A Session is dictated by the cookie. How else will you identify them? You
can embed the id in the web pages but you have to set that up. If you want
IIS to do it for you - you need cookies.

--Al

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Robert Paris

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Mar 8, 2001, 2:15:11 PM3/8/01

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how do you set it up?
I thought asp.net offers that capability itself?

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Mar 8, 2001, 3:30:54 PM3/8/01

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Take a look at the following article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/welcome/dsmsdn/as
p12282000.htm

it should help get you started with cookieless sessions.. (just remember to
use relative links in your pages)

John Peacock

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Mar 8, 2001, 4:51:26 PM3/8/01

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I used this article to setup my config.web file and it still does not work
in cookieless mode.

Here is the tag I used...
<sessionstate mode="inproc" cookieless="true" timeout="30"
server="localhost" port="42424" />

I assume that the server and port are not required for "inproc", but I added
them anyway to make that this was not the problem.

Session variables persist from page to page when cookieless property is set
to "false". When I change the property to "true", then the URL gets the
SessionID put in it, but the values do not persist.

Is there a setting that I am missing or is this a bug?

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Robert Paris

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Mar 8, 2001, 5:39:38 PM3/8/01

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I have the same problem as john peacock

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Robert Paris

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Mar 8, 2001, 5:41:33 PM3/8/01

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That article on MSDN is outdated. The attribute "mode" no longer exists (as
of beta 1).

prau

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Mar 8, 2001, 8:18:31 PM3/8/01

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Before you reply the next time, read up on the subject. Cookieless sessions
indeed do exist on ASP.NET... You're stuck on the plain old ASP world.

John Peacock

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Mar 8, 2001, 8:18:38 PM3/8/01

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Do you know what the new setting is? I think I saw an article that had
something like
inproc="true" sqlstate="false"

This gives me an idea for a wish list feature:
What if the server could detect if the client has cookies enabled? If the
client has cookies enabled, then it will use the cookie to store the Session
ID...if not, then use the cookie-less method.

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Robert Paris

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Mar 9, 2001, 10:01:12 AM3/9/01

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John,
I have good news for you. It can!
You can alter your config.web on the fly. And you can tell if someone uses
cookies or not. Put the two together...

But we're still at the same problem - has anyone gotten "cookieless" to
work?