[RESOLVED] Session Problems

Hi there,

I have a strange problem with Sessions at the moment.

In my project i have a few pages a user must go through.

On the first page it creates the object, populates some data on it, then i store the object in a session, lets call it "SESSION_MYDATA", and the user needs to go to the next page. On the page Load i get the object from the session, SESSION_MYDATA, and populate more data on it.
Now this works fine.

I have added a button that opens a new windows by calling some javascript.
when this window opens and i try in the page_load to get the session,SESSION_MYDATA, but it returns nothing when it should contain the object.

i have other pages similar to this that produce new pop up windows and they can obtain the sessions with out any trouble. except this one window.

To add data to the session i use

VB Code:

Dim mycls As New myClass
.....
.....
Session.item("SESSION_MYDATA") = mycls

to get data from the session i use

VB Code:

Dim mycls As myclass
mycls = Ctype(Session.item("SESSION_MYDATA"),myclass)

in this one case mycls is nothing

As far as I know, the session object only lasts for a single browser instance. If the user closes its browser and opens another browser, the session will not exist anymore. Try passing the data through the querystring to access it in another browser.

thats what i originally thought but i have already have numerous, about 10, other times in my web site that i create pop up windows and use sessions to get the data.

the issue here was the same as one i previously came accross.
when running the web app in debug mode it automatically uses http:\\localhost

when open new windows/popups from inside a previously existing window, these popups can use the sessions, however localhost does not recognise them.

so when i hit F5 or play i need to change the http:\\localhost to http:\\127.0.0.1 or whatever your ip address is and it will work

begs me to ask a question,

how can you set IIS to use http:\\127.0.0.1 when running the application and not use http:\\localhost???