Accessing Session variables on top window of a classic ASP site on windows 10

[sshawn]

Hello:

I would appreciate it if someone who is familiar with Classic ASP on windows 10 and JavaScript to consider my question.

I am trying to settle a classic ASP site which I moved from windows XP to windows 10. Everything was working fine on windows XP.
The current problem on windows 10 is that when I load a page into the top window of the site the session variables are lost ‘although the session Id remains the same’.

To be clearer, consider testSite /page_1.asp.
And the page_1.asp includes the following lines:
Response.write “<br>---sessionId=” & session.sessionId ---> lets say sessionId is 1234567890
Session(“sessionVar”) = “sessionValue”
<a target=’_top’ href=’/testSite/testFolder /page_2.asp’>Click to redirect</a>

When I click the link ‘Click to redirect ‘, the page_2.asp is loaded in top window and the page_2.asp includes:
Response.write “<br>---sessionId=” & session.sessionId ---> Result is same as in page_.asp or 1234567890
Response.write “<br>--- the value of sessionVar =” & session(“sessionVar”) ---> Result is empty

If the sessionId is the same on the page_2.asp and so session is not lost, then:

1- why cannot I retrieve the value of the session(“sessionVar”)? If the site’s security is an objective, I don’t know how this could contribute to security if pag_2.asp is called from within the site and the same session is still available in the page_2.asp.

2- Am I missing some setup in the iis?

3- I could open a new window but I do need the same method that was implemented on the windows XP for many reasons. Could anyone tell me please how could I retrieve the session(“sessionVar”) ?

Thank you

[sshawn]

Hello:

I would appreciate it if someone who is familiar with Classic ASP on windows 10 and JavaScript to consider my question.

I am trying to settle a classic ASP site which I moved from windows XP to windows 10. Everything was working fine on windows XP.
The current problem on windows 10 is that when I load a page into the top window of the site the session variables are lost ‘although the session Id remains the same’.

To be clearer, consider testSite /page_1.asp.
And the page_1.asp includes the following lines:
Response.write “<br>---sessionId=” & session.sessionId ---> lets say sessionId is 1234567890
Session(“sessionVar”) = “sessionValue”
<a target=’_top’ href=’/testSite/testFolder /page_2.asp’>Click to redirect</a>

When I click the link ‘Click to redirect ‘, the page_2.asp is loaded in top window and the page_2.asp includes:
Response.write “<br>---sessionId=” & session.sessionId ---> Result is same as in page_.asp or 1234567890
Response.write “<br>--- the value of sessionVar =” & session(“sessionVar”) ---> Result is empty

If the sessionId is the same on the page_2.asp and so session is not lost, then:

1- why cannot I retrieve the value of the session(“sessionVar”)? If the site’s security is an objective, I don’t know how this could contribute to security if pag_2.asp is called from within the site and the same session is still available in the page_2.asp.

2- Am I missing some setup in the iis?

3- I could open a new window but I do need the same method that was implemented on the windows XP for many reasons. Could anyone tell me please how could I retrieve the session(“sessionVar”) ?

Thank you

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