How to pass session values to a subdomain in asp.net

Question

Hi,

I would like to know the method of passing session variables/values to a subdomain from the main website.

For eg : Upon user login, I would like to set some session variables and redirect the page to a subdomain URL.

How can this be done?

fyi... I have setup two websites in IIS. One is localhost and the other is subdomain.localhost

So, If I want to retrieve the session values in subdomain.localhost (which points to a specific folder in the app), how should I go about it?

Thanks

Answer 1

You could try setting up StateServer or SQLServer for your sessions. That you can load the session from any application bases on the session ID.

Answer 2

Optionally, you could forgo session and instead use cookies. Then you can restrict the cookie path to the whole domain thereby sharing the information without having the need to use an out of process session scheme like stateserver or storing the session info in sql server.