The traditional way to maintain session state is to set session cookies. ASP
implements this by setting a session ID cookie and letting you read/set
session variables using the Session.Contents collection. I think it is the
default property of Session, meaning you can do 'Session("name")=value',
etc. This method requires session cookies to be supported and enabled in the
web browser client.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...m_sesoccon.asp
ASP.net offers several new ways of maintaining session state. It can be
maintained in a SQL Server database (which is kind of contrary to the whole
point of your post). There is also something called cookieless session
state, where the session ID is made part of the URL automatically. I am
unfamiliar with the details.
Paul
"Ray" <ra*@ray.com> wrote in message
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I don't know much about these yet, but I want to be able to pass certain
variables to all of my asp pages. What I
want to do is read all of the variables from the database on my
default.asp page and then then when I navigate
around the site be able to pass them around without having to re-read them
each time.
I've heard about seesion variables - would these do the job, and if so how
do I load them and subsequently use them.
If anybody can help, please tell me exactly where to put them in my code.
Ray