On Session_OnStart() getting fired when going from page to page at the same level as the global.asa

[Steve Mauldin]

This is a standard ASP application that has several pages at the root
withthe global.asa. I set a session variable session("accountid") =
"123456" within an asp page and then response.redirect to the next page and
immediately response.write session("accountid") and I get back nothing.
But if I set a session variable session("accountid") = "123456" within an
asp page and response.redirect to a page in a sub directory and immediately
response.write session("accountid") I get back 123456 on the screen.
Please help.

[Manohar Kamath [MVP]]

Steve,

Looks like the Session_OnStart is not firing, probably because the folder is
not set up as an application, etc.

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Manohar Kamath
Editor, .netWire
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"Steve Mauldin" <st**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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This is a standard ASP application that has several pages at the root
withthe global.asa. I set a session variable session("accountid") =
"123456" within an asp page and then response.redirect to the next page and immediately response.write session("accountid") and I get back nothing.
But if I set a session variable session("accountid") = "123456" within an
asp page and response.redirect to a page in a sub directory and immediately response.write session("accountid") I get back 123456 on the screen.
Please help.

[Steve Mauldin]

Manohar,

The folder is setup as an application and I have tested the global.asa and
it is firing on eachpage load in the the root directory. I set in the
Session On Start in the global.asa a session variable session("accountid") =
"000000" then I call page1.asp in the root and issue session("accountid") =
"123456" and then response.write session("accountid") and I get 123456 on
the screen. I then response.redirect to page2.asp and response.write
session("accountid") and I get 000000 on the screen. The Global.asa
session on start is getting fired on every page load in the root. This is
the first time I have ever seen this happen and I have done several ASP
applications. Any Ideas would be helpful. And, If anyone is wondering,
cookies are turned on and if I use cookies to pass data from page to page it
works fine. I am trying to move to session variables so when I port to
ASP.NET I can use munging instead of cookies. Thanks for the help.

Steve Mauldin

"Manohar Kamath [MVP]" <mk*****@TAKETHISOUTkamath.com> wrote in message
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Steve,

Looks like the Session_OnStart is not firing, probably because the folder is not set up as an application, etc.

--
Manohar Kamath
Editor, .netWire
www.dotnetwire.com
"Steve Mauldin" <st**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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This is a standard ASP application that has several pages at the root
withthe global.asa. I set a session variable session("accountid") =
"123456" within an asp page and then response.redirect to the next page

and

immediately response.write session("accountid") and I get back nothing. But if I set a session variable session("accountid") = "123456" within an asp page and response.redirect to a page in a sub directory and

immediately

response.write session("accountid") I get back 123456 on the screen.
Please help.

[Steve Mauldin]

Thanks all for the help. I was able to figure this out. Session.abandon
does not actually execute until the page is completed and I had an
session.abandon in an included header page. so the session variable that was
set was getting
wiped at the end of the page, Doh!

"Steve Mauldin" <st**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eu**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

This is a standard ASP application that has several pages at the root
withthe global.asa. I set a session variable session("accountid") =
"123456" within an asp page and then response.redirect to the next page and immediately response.write session("accountid") and I get back nothing.
But if I set a session variable session("accountid") = "123456" within an
asp page and response.redirect to a page in a sub directory and immediately response.write session("accountid") I get back 123456 on the screen.
Please help.