Localization: User selectable UICulture - ASHX Handlers

[nickmarkham]

Hi,

I have 'localized' the button images in my web app by using an HTTP handler file for each image so the correct langauge imagebutton can be loaded depending on the users language.

In the ASHX file, i set the CurrentUICulture for the current thread using the following line, which reads the users' broswer default langauge. This works fine.

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo(context.Request.UserLanguages(0))

However, on the Login page of the web app i have a dropdown so that users can manually select a language. This gets passed into a variable called 'gblLanguage' and on each ASPX page i use the Protected Overrides Sub InitializeCulture() function to set the Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo(gblLanguage) if a user has manually selected a language from the dropdown.

This works on all of the aspx pages but i can't access gblLanguage from my handler ASHX files. I have also tried using sessions to pass the language through but can't get this to work either.

Please could you tell me how i can pass through the user selected language from my login page to my ASHX files so that they can call the correct Resource files to load the images.

Many thanks,

Nick.