Session variable - no cookies

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I need to keep a string in Session["name"] however this does not work if the
user has cookies turned off. How can I work around this?

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http://www.windwardreports.com

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[Kumar Reddi]

You should use cookieless session... Then you do not have to worry about
user cookie settings.
asp.net needs browser cookie settings to be turned on to store the session
ID, which is the default setting.. But if you go into the web.config and set
cookieless=true, then asp.net will embed the session id in the url and will
make your application independent of browser cookie settings.

"David Thielen" <th*****@nospam.nospamwrote in message
news:11**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi;

I need to keep a string in Session["name"] however this does not work if
the
user has cookies turned off. How can I work around this?

--
thanks - dave
david_at_windward_dot_net
http://www.windwardreports.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

[David Thielen]

Hi;

Reading this it looks like you are either always cookieless or always
cookie(?) but can't have it go cookieless only if necessary. I'd rather not
have the cookie always in the url for the occasional paranoid who doesn't
allow session cookies.

So...

Is there a way to determine if cookies are allowed and put up some text in
the web page if they are turned off?

--
thanks - dave
david_at_windward_dot_net
http://www.windwardreports.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm


"Kumar Reddi" wrote:

You should use cookieless session... Then you do not have to worry about
user cookie settings.
asp.net needs browser cookie settings to be turned on to store the session
ID, which is the default setting.. But if you go into the web.config and set
cookieless=true, then asp.net will embed the session id in the url and will
make your application independent of browser cookie settings.

"David Thielen" <th*****@nospam.nospamwrote in message
news:11**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi;

I need to keep a string in Session["name"] however this does not work if
the
user has cookies turned off. How can I work around this?

--
thanks - dave
david_at_windward_dot_net
http://www.windwardreports.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Hi David,

You are right that you will have to be always cookieless or always cookie.
Setting cookieless="AutoDetect" will only use the browser capabilities, if
user disabled cookies, cookies still will be used by not working.

One way to determine whether cookies are accepted is by trying to write a
cookie and then trying to read it back again. If you cannot read the cookie
you wrote, you assume that cookies are turned off in the browser.

For complete code listing, please see following MSDN Library:

#ASP.NET Cookies Overview
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178194.aspx
(Search for section titled "Determining Whether a Browser Accepts Cookies")

Hope this helps. Please feel free to post here if anything is unclear.
Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wa****@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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