session problem

fender79 · #1 (**permalink**) May 9th, 2005, 06:25

Hi all,

I been bothered by this problem for very long time and i hope maybe some of you can help me out. Thanks in advance.

My company website have this problem that it cannot remember the session for those user who use firefox. To make thing simple, i wrote somthing like this:

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<html>
<body>
<% 
Response.Cookies("SSDC")("User_ID") = 1234
session("test1") = "firefox"
session("name") = "wee"
session("enrol_id") = 654321

%>

link
</body>
</html>

The code above will set a normal cookies as well as set some session variables. And also a hyperlink to the second page as below:

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<html>
<body>


Browser is <%=session("test1") %> </p>


Name is <%=session("name") %> </p>


enrol is <%=session("enrol_id") %> </p>


cookies is <%=request.cookies("SSDC")("User_ID") %> </p>

</body>
</html>

So, supposingly when the user click the hyperlink to the second page, The second page should display all the values set in the first page. But this only true for internet explorer but not firefox. And more interesting is when i comment away the response.cookies in the first page, all the session variables can be captured.

You can try to access this pages by following this link

www.ssdcl.com.sg/sessionTest1.asp

I also sure that firefox is set to accept cookies.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks again and sorry for my poor english.

Regards,

fender79

D3mon · #2 (**permalink**) May 9th, 2005, 09:23

Sometimes I find that I have to set a session value twice in a row to get it to actually set correctly:

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session("test1") = "firefox"
session("test1") = "firefox"

Although I suspect this might not be the root of your problem.

fender79 · #3 (**permalink**) May 10th, 2005, 00:19

Hi,

I try to set the session variables twice but still not successful.
The thing i cannot understand is why when i comment away the response.cookies, the session variables will work. But if i not, it wont work at all.

Rgs,

Webforumz Staff · #4 (**permalink**) May 10th, 2005, 00:53

I assume you've tried setting the cookie after the session variables?

fender79 · #5 (**permalink**) May 10th, 2005, 01:00

ya i did that also but also cannot work.

Smokie · #6 (**permalink**) May 10th, 2005, 12:04

Try setting the cookies and session varibles BEFORE your opening <html> tag...

fender79 · #7 (**permalink**) May 11th, 2005, 00:18

I try to put the asp code before the opening of html tag but still cannot work. Is there any server setting will affect this?

Trebz · #8 (**permalink**) May 17th, 2005, 11:50

Have you tried outputting Session.SessionID - Does it work?

Are you using IIS?

I have tried almost exactly the same code on my machine and it works, but like you say, if I try your link in FF it doesn't work.

fender79 · #9 (**permalink**) May 18th, 2005, 02:26

HI,

I put this code in sessiontest2.asp

session id is <%=session.sessionID %> </p>

and i found that the session id is not the same each time i refresh the browser. How can this be?

Ya, using IIS.

Rgs,

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