Connect to session

[Jan Kucera]

Hi.
How can I join session or read Session variables if I have the SessionID
(or anything what I can supply)?

Imagine I have a external link from my webpages, which opens an application
which is expected to make requests to the server. It starts another session,
but I need to use the session from browser.
To the link I'm able to send any property the server can give me.

Thanks, Jan.

[Bruno Alexandre]

what a confusion you said !!!
can you simplefy what you need?

if you have website A and website B, if not in the same server they will
have diferent sessions (even if using the same name)

to send info from website A to website B use the POST or GET and them
populate the new website with the values.

example to send session("name") and session("userna me") from website A to
website B
website A

session("name") = "Bruno"
session("userna me") = "balexandre "

the link to open the new website B if you're using GET method sould be like
this

www.domainB.com/websiteBpage.aspx?un= & session("userna me") & "&n=" &
session("name")

in website B populate the sessions using the QueryString method

session("name") = request.queryst ring("n")
session("userna me") = request.queryst ring("un")

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Bruno Alexandre
(a Portuguese in Denmark)

"Jan Kucera" <ua*@centrum.cz > escreveu na mensagem
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Hi.
How can I join session or read Session variables if I have the SessionID
(or anything what I can supply)?

Imagine I have a external link from my webpages, which opens an
application which is expected to make requests to the server. It starts
another session, but I need to use the session from browser.
To the link I'm able to send any property the server can give me.

Thanks, Jan.

[Jan Kucera]

Okay sorry if I made a big confusion to you ! :-)

So. Firstly I have only one site. I will make concrete examples with the
real situation I have, I just thought it will complicate everything.

User logs into the web using Windows authentication. On the web, he opens a
project. Each user has CurrentProject variable in his Session.
Now, on some page, there is link to a Word document. The Word document opens
and -using macro- is about to update its content from CurrentProject at the
web server.
I have handler/web service published to return values to the document, for
example http://myserver/getcontent.ashx. However, Word starts new session
with its request.

And thats it. At the handler I need to get the CurrentProject but I don't
have the session into which the user logged in.

I thought that I could send I don't know eg. SessionID, so the Word can ask
for http://myserver/getcontent.ashx?SessionID=id, and on the server side, I
can get the proper session and its CurrentProject.

I have no control of the request stream (thus headers) from the Word.

Is that somewhat clearer?
Jan

[V]

Hi Jan,

Word will always act like a new client and hence will start a new
session. I am not too sure if you can re-use a session in teh way that
you are visualizing it or not, but here is a work around:

Create a session table in the database. This way, what you can do is
when a user logs in, you can make an entry of the session (and
associated variables) in the database. Now you can pass the SessionID
or the UserID to your word document, which can pass it on to the web
service through its macro. The web service can then recreate the
session from the database.

I hope that helped.

Regards,
Vaibhav

[Bruno Alexandre]

now I know what you need, but that's WORD programming issue

try to add this question in microsoft.publi c.word.programm ing newsgroup,
maybe they will responde to u better that the folhs in this NG

--

Bruno Alexandre
(a Portuguese in Denmark)

"Jan Kucera" <ua*@centrum.cz > escreveu na mensagem
news:uJ******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...

Okay sorry if I made a big confusion to you ! :-)

So. Firstly I have only one site. I will make concrete examples with the
real situation I have, I just thought it will complicate everything.

User logs into the web using Windows authentication. On the web, he opens
a project. Each user has CurrentProject variable in his Session.
Now, on some page, there is link to a Word document. The Word document
opens and -using macro- is about to update its content from CurrentProject
at the web server.
I have handler/web service published to return values to the document, for
example http://myserver/getcontent.ashx. However, Word starts new session
with its request.

And thats it. At the handler I need to get the CurrentProject but I don't
have the session into which the user logged in.

I thought that I could send I don't know eg. SessionID, so the Word can
ask for http://myserver/getcontent.ashx?SessionID=id, and on the server
side, I can get the proper session and its CurrentProject.

I have no control of the request stream (thus headers) from the Word.

Is that somewhat clearer?
Jan

[Jan Kucera]

Actually not, this is not Word issue at all and reason why I didn't talked
about Word before.

So what I need is a collection of Session objects for Application,
accessable by SessionID as a key...

I need something like Session = Application.Ses sions[mySessionID];

By the way, how do I find current session count and iterate over them?
"Bruno Alexandre" <br*******@filt rarte.com> wrote in message
news:ey******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...

now I know what you need, but that's WORD programming issue

try to add this question in microsoft.publi c.word.programm ing newsgroup,
maybe they will responde to u better that the folhs in this NG

--

Bruno Alexandre
(a Portuguese in Denmark)

"Jan Kucera" <ua*@centrum.cz > escreveu na mensagem
news:uJ******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...

Okay sorry if I made a big confusion to you ! :-)

So. Firstly I have only one site. I will make concrete examples with the
real situation I have, I just thought it will complicate everything.

User logs into the web using Windows authentication. On the web, he opens
a project. Each user has CurrentProject variable in his Session.
Now, on some page, there is link to a Word document. The Word document
opens and -using macro- is about to update its content from
CurrentProject at the web server.
I have handler/web service published to return values to the document,
for example http://myserver/getcontent.ashx. However, Word starts new
session with its request.

And thats it. At the handler I need to get the CurrentProject but I don't
have the session into which the user logged in.

I thought that I could send I don't know eg. SessionID, so the Word can
ask for http://myserver/getcontent.ashx?SessionID=id, and on the server
side, I can get the proper session and its CurrentProject.

I have no control of the request stream (thus headers) from the Word.

Is that somewhat clearer?
Jan

[Robbe Morris [C# MVP]]

You don't. I don't believe that is supported in ASP.NET
not unless you manage your own providers and keep
track of them in your own code.

--
Robbe Morris - 2004-2006 Microsoft MVP C#
Earn money answering .NET questions
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/forums/merit.asp

"Jan Kucera" <ua*@centrum.cz > wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP04.phx.gbl. ..

Actually not, this is not Word issue at all and reason why I didn't talked
about Word before.

So what I need is a collection of Session objects for Application,
accessable by SessionID as a key...

I need something like Session = Application.Ses sions[mySessionID];

By the way, how do I find current session count and iterate over them?
"Bruno Alexandre" <br*******@filt rarte.com> wrote in message
news:ey******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...

now I know what you need, but that's WORD programming issue

try to add this question in microsoft.publi c.word.programm ing newsgroup,
maybe they will responde to u better that the folhs in this NG

--

Bruno Alexandre
(a Portuguese in Denmark)

"Jan Kucera" <ua*@centrum.cz > escreveu na mensagem
news:uJ******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...

Okay sorry if I made a big confusion to you ! :-)

So. Firstly I have only one site. I will make concrete examples with the
real situation I have, I just thought it will complicate everything.

User logs into the web using Windows authentication. On the web, he
opens a project. Each user has CurrentProject variable in his Session.
Now, on some page, there is link to a Word document. The Word document
opens and -using macro- is about to update its content from
CurrentProject at the web server.
I have handler/web service published to return values to the document,
for example http://myserver/getcontent.ashx. However, Word starts new
session with its request.

And thats it. At the handler I need to get the CurrentProject but I
don't have the session into which the user logged in.

I thought that I could send I don't know eg. SessionID, so the Word can
ask for http://myserver/getcontent.ashx?SessionID=id, and on the server
side, I can get the proper session and its CurrentProject.

I have no control of the request stream (thus headers) from the Word.

Is that somewhat clearer?
Jan

[nirmal.c]

Once u have sessionID , Try setting ASPNET cookie in your
application's process by Wininet call ( InternetSetCook ie )

Nirmal

Jan Kucera wrote:

Hi.
How can I join session or read Session variables if I have the SessionID
(or anything what I can supply)?

Imagine I have a external link from my webpages, which opens an application
which is expected to make requests to the server. It starts another session,
but I need to use the session from browser.
To the link I'm able to send any property the server can give me.

Thanks, Jan.

[Jan Kucera]

Isn't that something like storing session in db?

I understand the reason why there is new session and I know how and am able
to pass session or user id to the link.

However I store quite complex and not serializable types in session. And,
this would create two concurrent sessions, which will not be synchronized.
This is bad for me.

But thanks for the idea.
Jan

[Jan Kucera]

So am I free to store a HttpSession array in Application object? How
expensive would be that?

"Robbe Morris [C# MVP]" <in**@eggheadca fe.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP03.phx.gbl. ..

You don't. I don't believe that is supported in ASP.NET
not unless you manage your own providers and keep
track of them in your own code.

--
Robbe Morris - 2004-2006 Microsoft MVP C#
Earn money answering .NET questions
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/forums/merit.asp

"Jan Kucera" <ua*@centrum.cz > wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP04.phx.gbl. ..

Actually not, this is not Word issue at all and reason why I didn't
talked about Word before.

So what I need is a collection of Session objects for Application,
accessable by SessionID as a key...

I need something like Session = Application.Ses sions[mySessionID];

By the way, how do I find current session count and iterate over them?
"Bruno Alexandre" <br*******@filt rarte.com> wrote in message
news:ey******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...

now I know what you need, but that's WORD programming issue

try to add this question in microsoft.publi c.word.programm ing newsgroup,
maybe they will responde to u better that the folhs in this NG

--

Bruno Alexandre
(a Portuguese in Denmark)

"Jan Kucera" <ua*@centrum.cz > escreveu na mensagem
news:uJ******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP05.phx.gbl...
Okay sorry if I made a big confusion to you ! :-)

So. Firstly I have only one site. I will make concrete examples with
the real situation I have, I just thought it will complicate
everything.

User logs into the web using Windows authentication. On the web, he
opens a project. Each user has CurrentProject variable in his Session.
Now, on some page, there is link to a Word document. The Word document
opens and -using macro- is about to update its content from
CurrentProject at the web server.
I have handler/web service published to return values to the document,
for example http://myserver/getcontent.ashx. However, Word starts new
session with its request.

And thats it. At the handler I need to get the CurrentProject but I
don't have the session into which the user logged in.

I thought that I could send I don't know eg. SessionID, so the Word can
ask for http://myserver/getcontent.ashx?SessionID=id, and on the server
side, I can get the proper session and its CurrentProject.

I have no control of the request stream (thus headers) from the Word.

Is that somewhat clearer?
Jan