checking for the existence of a session

[Alistair]

hi folks (and folkesses)

is it possible to create a session cookie and then test for the existence of
that session cookie on another page?

basically, what I'm trying to do is a sort of buddy list. When someone logs
in (lets say Dave) a session cookie (dave) is created, then along comes bob,
when bob logs in, he could see that Dave is logged on because a test for
session.cookie in Dave's name is true.

Alternatively I guess I could set a flag in the DB when Dave logs on, but
then I would have to go about removing this flag when dave logs off (which
most people don't do, they just close the browser), which might be a pain.

many thanks

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[Tom Kaminski [MVP]]

"Alistair" wrote:

hi folks (and folkesses)

is it possible to create a session cookie and then test for the existence of
that session cookie on another page?

basically, what I'm trying to do is a sort of buddy list. When someone logs
in (lets say Dave) a session cookie (dave) is created, then along comes bob,
when bob logs in, he could see that Dave is logged on because a test for
session.cookie in Dave's name is true.

Alternatively I guess I could set a flag in the DB when Dave logs on, but
then I would have to go about removing this flag when dave logs off (which
most people don't do, they just close the browser), which might be a pain.

Check this out (make modifications to store user names):
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2491