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Using stateserver to store global variables

Hi,

I have a web that is running on 2 servers with IIS6 and webfarm.
I'm using a stateserver to store the sessions. My question is:
Is there a way to use a stateserver to store global variables?

What I was thinking was something like communicating directly with the stateserver to set and retreve data or maybe use the .net sessions to do it with a constant sessionid.

Regards,
Þorgeir

Thandava Vallepalli

You can use Application to save the global variables.....

Thandava Vallepalli

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307598

poxy

ASKER

quote : "Application state variables are, in effect, global variables for each ASP.NET application."

I need them to be shared across servers and applications.

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poxy

ASKER

Well.. not exactly what I was looking for..

Jesse Houwing

Sorry, but it's the only thing available to you unless you implement your own state service

poxy

ASKER

Well.. i got my self a packet sniffer and sniffed the commication between the asp.net and the stateserver. And found out that it is prety simple. Then I found a telnet class and succefully stored my own global variable in the stateserver. So that was what I was looking for. But you got the point for being closest.
Best regards, Thorgeir

Jesse Houwing

Any chance you could share that code?

poxy

ASKER

Sure:
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Innn.Lisa.Misc.TelnetClient telnet = new Innn.Lisa.Misc.TelnetClient("213.176.158.9",42424,2);

telnet.Connect();

string command = "PUT //LM/W3SVC/1/Root(Mb1OOYGzF/lgC6PvuXxHDJHt5lc=)/uutcvk552h51wz55203p5nmo HTTP/1.1\r\n";
command += "Host: 213.176.158.9\r\n";
command += "Timeout:60\r\n";
command += "Content-Length:3\r\n";
command += "\r\n";
command += "123";
command += "\r\n\r\n";

telnet.SendMessage(command);

//telnet.SendMessage("GET //LM/W3SVC/1/Root/lisa(syXS+0BN87ddXql4EvLGmiLYco8=)/5p2v1l450iuc3hzj1phi4hbk HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n",true);
//Response.Write(telnet.WaitFor("200 OK","\n"));
//Response.Write(telnet.WaitFor(2));

telnet.Disconnect();
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the sessionid is this : 5p2v1l450iuc3hzj1phi4hbk
and this is some sessionid hash : syXS+0BN87ddXql4EvLGmiLYco8=

I have yet to figure out how I can generate this hash but I thik it's ok to use some old sessionid & hash.
You can test this out by using the windows telnet client and past the commands in it.

poxy

ASKER

blah.. in the code I sent there are different sessionids and hash in the PUT and GET strings. But it should be the same.

Jesse Houwing

Thanx!

The hash seems to be a base64 encoded string. It can probably be any text generated at startup of the application, or fixed in the application_start