How to maintain the same ASP session during a redirect to SSL?

Question

I have a shopping cart website running classic ASP that needs help during the checkout process. When a user is ready to checkout, they are redirected to an SSL version of the site.

Response.Redirect "https://mysecuresite.com/beginCheckoutProcess.asp"

When the jump occurs, the customer starts a new session when they arrive at the SSL version of the site. This means that the contents of their cart are lost, leaving them with a terrible experience on the site.

Is there a way to maintain the same ASP session across the jump to SSL?

Answer 1

Have you tried setting a cookie and storing it on both ends? Then you can recreate the session on the other end.

Answer 2

If you keep the subdomain same it'll just work.