Question

ASP Sessions not working in Internet Explorer, but do work in Firefox

Asked by: Caliguian

We have a bunch of websites running off of one of our servers, and all are functioning correctly except for one.  The problem with this one website seems to be that the session information does not save when going from one page to another (or even when you refresh the same page).  The site appears to be setup the same as the others, but for whatever reason this one just isn't working.  And to add to confusion, the site DOES work in Firefox, but not in Internet Explorer.

To see this in action I have created two pages:  SessionTest.asp and SessionEnabled.asp

Basically the SessionTest.asp page sets a session variable and then forwards you on to the SessionEnabled.asp page to check if it still exists on another page.

Try hitting the sessiontest.asp page with Internet Explorer and you can refresh the page and see a new session ID value every time the page reloads, but doing the same thing in FireFox keeps your original ID and sessions work as expected.

http://kegels_test.steton.com/SessionTest.asp

Please help... I have been banging my head on this for the past couple of days and I don't know what else to look at.

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2006-09-14 at 12:05:19ID21989954
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Answers

 

by: ddelhezPosted on 2006-09-14 at 12:40:21ID: 17523714

your link doesn't work...

 

by: kevp75Posted on 2006-09-14 at 12:51:39ID: 17523808

he/she is right, neither does sessionEnabled.asp

 

by: CaliguianPosted on 2006-09-14 at 13:10:04ID: 17523979

Ah crap, it is set to internal access only... without being able to see the test, which shows what I already described above, any clues as to what might cause this or how to fix it?

 

by: ddelhezPosted on 2006-09-14 at 13:15:48ID: 17524025

Recently, another question had as subject the same kind of problem... Sessions not reacting the same way in IE and in FF...
Finally, the guy just rebooted the server, and afterwards, everything went fine...

 

by: CaliguianPosted on 2006-09-14 at 14:54:16ID: 17524749

Actually tried that a few time, but it didn't clear it up.

 

by: netsmithcentralPosted on 2006-09-14 at 18:05:12ID: 17525912

Check your IE security settings.  Sessions rely on cookies being accepted by the client.  FF might be configured to accept them and IE not (on your computer/other computers on your network).

 

by: CaliguianPosted on 2006-09-14 at 19:11:13ID: 17526214

Thanks for the tip netsmith.  I have verified the settings and am able to run the same application on a different site in IE, but for some reason it just doesn't work on this site... the sessions just refuse to save for IE.

 

by: Scripter25Posted on 2006-09-14 at 19:44:22ID: 17526345


Check this out for me

Create an ASP page name it session_list.asp and place the following code in it.
<%
On Error resume next

 for each i in session.Contents
response.write(i & ":==================:" & session.contents(i) & "<BR>")
next

response.Write("The Session ID is ::::: " & session.SessionID)
%>

<br>
<br>
<% NEXT %>

Then Create another page with and name it home.asp and place the following code in it

<%
Session("Hello")="Hello World"
Session("Number")=5

Session("Filler")="abcdefghIJkLmNoPQrsTUV"
%>
<a href="session_list.asp" target="_blank">Sessions</a>


Then open home.asp in IE and click the link that says sessions you should get a second page that pops up with a list of all of your sessions variables.
Let me know what you get

 

by: CaliguianPosted on 2006-09-15 at 10:38:35ID: 17531165

hey Scripter25, that's actually the same test I was mentioning in the first post... the session variables are not being carried over to the next page, and the sessionID is different from page to page (and even on the same page when it is refreshed).

 

by: Scripter25Posted on 2006-09-15 at 11:30:34ID: 17531543

Ok I know you said that it seems to be working for firefox and that may be. But Try this out seeing as how nothing else seems to be working for you and this is an extremely wierd situation. Cant hurt to try
IN IIS go to the configuration for that specific site and disable Session state.
Apply it.
Reboot the machine then go back in and reinable it and reboot once again.

(Serverr)What version of IIS are you using.
(Client)What version of IE are you using?

Have you tested this out on a couple different computers?

 

by: CaliguianPosted on 2006-09-15 at 16:13:54ID: 17533268

Okay, we got it figured out.  The URL was http://kegels_test.steton.com/ (as shown in the first comment)... URLs are not allowed to have underscores in their names!  Doh!  What a pain to figure that one out.  I have no idea why it worked in FireFox though.

Changing the URL to not have underscores cleared the problem right up.

Thanks for all of your suggestions everyone.

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