Losing session with popup windows?

andrewjknox

Dear all,
This is really a one-off problem and only applies to a single user.

The site is hosted on a windows 2003 machine with users accessing it
across a local network.

Basically, a user on a website can logon successfully and browse around
the site, but when they open a page thats in a popup (activated using
javascript and looking at a page in same directory as the page they are
opening the window from), the session is not picked up and I display a
message saying "session ended - please logon".

My check is: if (Session["loggedInUser"] == null) etc...

The thing is, the session hasn't actually ended and when they close the
window down, they can continue browsing.

This is only happening for one user. The rest of the users on the
network are absolutely fine.

Has anyone encountered this problem before as I havent had much joy
looking around the web for answers. Is this potentially a network
problem?

Kind regards,
Andy

Nov 19 '05 #1

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George

Known bug in IE.

It does lose session in some instances. Was not able to figure out the pattern.
Nor found a workaround, except getting rid of pop-up.

George.
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Dear all,
This is really a one-off problem and only applies to a single user.

The site is hosted on a windows 2003 machine with users accessing it
across a local network.

Basically, a user on a website can logon successfully and browse around
the site, but when they open a page thats in a popup (activated using
javascript and looking at a page in same directory as the page they are
opening the window from), the session is not picked up and I display a
message saying "session ended - please logon".

My check is: if (Session["loggedInUser"] == null) etc...

The thing is, the session hasn't actually ended and when they close the
window down, they can continue browsing.

This is only happening for one user. The rest of the users on the
network are absolutely fine.

Has anyone encountered this problem before as I havent had much joy
looking around the web for answers. Is this potentially a network
problem?

Kind regards,
Andy

Nov 19 '05 #2

andrewjknox

Thanks George. It has since happened once on my dev machine (same
site). I found by changing my cookie handling - it removed the problem?
But even that fix was not consistant. I placed my settings back to
where they were when I got the problem and it was fine... session still
there...

Somebody else I know removed all the cookies on the machine and that
worked for them.

Odd.

Have MS aknowledged the bug as I couldn't see anything on their site..?

Nov 19 '05 #3

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