WebBrowser Control loses session state . . . RESOLVED (well, kind of . . .)

[Armbruster]

Hey guys (and gals),

Haven't posted in a bit, but I really need your help with something. I have an application that we are planning to use to host our Oracle portal page. The application has a WebBrowser control that navigates to our portal page where the user logs in. When the user clicks on a link in the WebBrowser control that opens and external page, they have to log in again. Basically the new link opens a new IE window in a new process thread and the WebBrowser control does not pass the session state to the new IE instance.

MSDN recommends creating a new instance of a form that has a WebBrowser control to open the newly spawned IE link request like so . . .

Private Sub wbPortal_NewWindow2(ppDisp As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
'    ppDisp: A pointer to the IDispatch interface of a WebBrowser
    'or InternetExplorer object. You set this pointer equal to the
    'IDispatch interface of a new or existing WebBrowser or
    'InternetExplorer object.
    Dim frmWB As frmBrowser
    Set frmWB = New frmBrowser
   
    With frmWB
        .WebBrowser1.RegisterAsBrowser = True
        Set ppDisp = .WebBrowser1.object
        .Visible = True
    End With
    Set frmWB = Nothing
End Sub

This works, but not so well for specifically sized windows opened through javascript instead of links. I really want the new window to open in IE but maintain session state. I have seen code posted, but it simply doesn't work . . .

Dim ie As InternetExplorer
 
Private Sub WebBrowser1_NewWindow2(ppDisp As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
    Set ie = Nothing
    Set ie = New InternetExplorer
    With ie
        .RegisterAsBrowser = True
        Set ppDisp = ie.Application
        ppDisp.Visible = True
    End With
    
End Sub

This will open the new IE window and it does handle popups correctly, but session state is lost and the user needs to re-login on the new page.

MSDN states . . .

ppDisp: A pointer to the IDispatch interface of a WebBrowser
or InternetExplorer object. You set this pointer equal to the
IDispatch interface of a new or existing WebBrowser or
InternetExplorer object.

which seems like the key to me, but I just came seem to put all the pieces together.

HELP!

Thanks in advance . . .