refreshing session variables?

micnap · February 23rd, 2004, 09:28 PM

Can someone please help with this problem?

Go to www.votawtool.com and use "12345" to test the situation below. (without the quotes)

In the upper right is a text box for dealer login. When the dealer enters their account number, discount pricing is "turned on" and recorded in session variables. Then the line, "Dealer Net Pricing is turned on. Turn off", is shown in place of the login text box. The following is used to show/hide this:

If session("dealer")="true" Then
show the line
Else
show the login form
End if

When someone clicks "turn off", the page goes to a logout page with the following:

session("dealer") = ""
session.abandon
response.cookies("dealer") = ""
strURL = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
Response.Redirect strURL

So, the session is abandoned, and then the person is redirected back to the page they were on and the login text box once again shows on that page.

HOWEVER, the problem comes in when they go to another page after logging in or out. It does not show the new state of session("dealer"), i.e. the login form shows when the "Dealer Net Pricing is turned on. Turn off" should show and vice versa.

How do I get this sorted out? I've tried auto refreshing the page by putting meta tags in the <head> ------
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
but it still isn't working. (The "about us" page currently has the meta tags)

Can anyone offer a suggestion?

Thanks,
Mickey

rodmcleay · February 23rd, 2004, 09:37 PM

Mickey, when viewing the site it behaved as you said it should,
ie.
When I was logged in all the pages showed me as logged in:"Dealer Net Pricing is turned on. Turn off"
When I logged out all pages showed me the dealer login textbox.

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They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
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micnap · February 23rd, 2004, 09:40 PM

Well heck. Maybe I need to clear my cache or reboot.

.....I'll be back.

Thanks,
Mickey

micnap · February 23rd, 2004, 09:43 PM

Rod,
Thanks for responding.

Did you log in and click on all the tabs of the main navigation and then log out and click on all the tabs again?

Thanks,
Mickey

rodmcleay · February 23rd, 2004, 09:45 PM

Yeah, just a tick I'll do it again.

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They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
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rodmcleay · February 23rd, 2004, 09:56 PM

Hmmm, you're right , sorry about that, I was sure it was behaving correctly but now it seems not to.

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They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
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micnap · February 23rd, 2004, 10:00 PM

Shux. I was hoping it was just my machine.

Oh well. Thanks anyway.

Any suggestions anyone?

Thanks,
Mickey

DaveGerard · February 25th, 2004, 05:48 PM

I would insert an SSI at the top of each page for verification purposes that runs whenever a page is loaded. The include could be something like this...

<%
response.buffer = true
if Session("Dealer") = "" then
response.redirect "login.asp"
end if
%>