session-state

How can I view everything in Session State for all active Sessions?

I'd like to create an administrative page to show that our use of session state isn't getting out of hand. Is it possible to retrieve a list of all active sessions, and if so, how can I access all of the session data in each session? ...

c# Implement IHttpModule or IHttpHandler for IRequiresSessionState

Hi how do I set up an http handler so I can manipulate IRequiresSessionState? I need to change when I can access session state. There is a stackoverflow question that takes me 90% of the way there, I am just too green in c# to know how to actually implement it and get it to work. If one of you experts could give me a quick 123 I would...

Generating a new ASP.NET session in the current HTTPContext

As a result of a penetration test against some of our products in the pipeline, what looked to be at the time an 'easy' problem to fix is turning out to be a toughy. Not that it should of course, I mean why would just generating a brand new session for the current HTTPContext be so difficult? Bizarre! Anyway- I've written a cheeky litt...

Problems with ASP.NET State Service version; state service is 1.1, website is 3.5

Hi there, I have a ASP.NET 3.5 website running on Windows Server 2003 and I'm using the ASP.NET State Service to manage sessions. It will appear to be working then I regularly get an error saying my code needs to have version 2.0 of the State Service running to work (I think that's what it said, I've temporarily switched back to storing ...

When a request is made to get an object from a users session, does the entire session get loaded?

I'm trying to understand when I can put certain objects into a users session and am wondering how the session is stored and values retrieved from it. If I make a request to pull Key A from the session state will it also read Key B? I know that viewstate is stored as one big object andn I am going ot assume that it is then accessed from...

Unable to make the session state request to the session state server

Our site is currently having this problem. Basically it only happen when we click some particular links where it will pop-up a new window. This is the error message we receive : Unable to make the session state request to the session state server. Please ensure that the ASP.NET State service is started and that the client and server por...

How to get SessionID on a request where EnableSessionState="False"

Hello, I want to be able to get the SessionID of the currently authenticated session in a WebMethod function where EnableSession = false. I cannot set EnableSession=true on this request, because another (long running) request on a different page is keeping the SessionState locked (EnableSessionState == "True" not "Readonly"). Is there...

session id cookie in gwt rpc

Assuming I'm rolling my own session code, what's the right way to generate a unique and secure session id cookie in java. Should I not be rolling my own but using something that's already been standardized? I'm using gwt and the google app-engine platform. How do I make sessions persist across browser/server restarts? ...

ASP.NET MVC Session using jQuery

PROBLEM SOLVED: I was overlooking a very simple issue, and that is that this is actually two different apps running under one website. I modified the URL in the AJAX call slightly to reflect that and the problem is no longer happening. ORIGINAL QUESTION: I'm having a weird issue and I'm hoping someone can help shed some light on the s...

Setting and reading a session

Hi there, I have a couple of classic ASP pages that require a user to enter their email and a specified 'keycode' that they have been given in order to gain access to a voucher that they can have emailed to them. A voucher code is then dynamically generated and (currently) sent in the query string of the url to a second page that would...

Instantiate ASP.NET Session from Session Cookie

Hello, is it possible to instantiate a session from a session cookie? I have a scenario, where (due to pipeline) I have the cookie available, but I my ASP.NET Http Context did not construct the Context.Session object yet. Can I do this manually, referencing the cookie or its contents somehow? ...

asp.net mvc session state.. help?!

Hi all, Has anyone ever eperienced session's being shared application wide? My MVC application has the vanilla setup but for some reason, my sessions are being shared. I didn't really think about it when I could switch between FF and IE and maintain a logged in state but now, I've noticed that I can switch machines too. My web.confi...

List all active ASP.NET Sessions

How can I list (and iterate through) all current ASP.NET sessions? ...

Get ASP.NET Session Last Access Time (or Time-to-Timeout)

I'm trying to determine how much time is left in a given ASP.NET session until it times out. If there is no readily available time-to-timeout value, I could also calculate it from its last access time (but I didn't find this either). Any idea how to do this? ...

Detecting Session expiry on ASP.NET MVC

I have built a shopping cart that uses Session State to keep the shopping cart data while the user is browsing the store. I have an issue where if I leave the browser window open for a long time on step1 of the shopping cart, then press "go to step 2", my actions throw an error because the step2 action assumes the session hasn't expired...

InProc Session State not working

Anyone have any ideas why a servers InProc session state would not be working? Is there a manual reset for it, or a way to check? Thanks Session mode is InProc, timeout is 25 minutes. At this time I'm unsure if the Session object is null, or if the session object is empty and cannot be accessed. I'm thinking it could be a cookie is...

ASP.NET - Is everything I store in Cache part of the w3wp process?

It is my understand that the ASP.NET Cache is part of the w3wp process, meaning writing to and reading from it does not cross process boundaries does not require marshalling does not require or perform serialization of objects placed in it (All in comparison to using ASP.NET Session State Server which does all these things) Is this...

Can Memory Pressure lead to Session Data Eviction in ASP.NET?

Does Memory Pressure ever cause Session Information to be evicted in ASP.NET? If so, will this only happen after all Caches are evicted (even with CachePriority.Highest), or what is the threshold for this to happen? ...

How to retain session-state from iframe in a pop-up?

I'm making a web application for a customer that has clients who want to put the login to the app inside of an iframe on their web sites. On a succesful login we want to open the app in a new pop-up window, but it seems that the logged in session is only retained inside of the iframe and not in the main window or in the pop-up. This is o...

Asp.net: How session works in a server farm environment

I would like to know in how the Session locking mechanism work and how I can lock a variable and its respective child objects for multiple reads/exclusive write in a server farm environment. Scenario The web farm will use 3 Windows 2003 servers, each server as its own app domain for the Web application. The sesion object is saved on SQL...