Session State

ukbrit · November 2nd, 2004, 07:06 AM

The code below does not work as stated in para 10 of page 265. When I click on the 'Tell Us Your Name' Button, my name appears and the form disappears. That is how it should be. However, when I refresh the browser my user name is no longer visible; I understand it should be? Also, when I link to another page in the menu and then return to the home page by selecting Home my username is not there; I understand it should be? Have I entered any code incorrectly or is the problem a function of cookies - Please note, I have checked and confirmed that both cookies and Session State are enabled!

Regards

Iain

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<% If Trim(Request.Form("txtUserName")) <> "" Then
Session("UserName") = Trim(Request.Form("txtUserName"))
End If
%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

<title>GlobalSoccerEvents.com - Your Source for Soccer Events Around the Globe</title>

<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

<body><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td><img src="Images/logo.gif" alt="logo" width="257" height="58"></td>
    <td><table border="0" align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td><a href="home.asp" id="home">Home</a></td>
    <td> </td>
    <td><a href="events.asp" id="events">Events</a></td>
    <td> </td>
    <td><a href="mysite.asp" id="mysite">My Site</a></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<br>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
var sPageName = '<%=Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")%>';
sPageName = sPageName.substr(sPageName.lastIndexOf('/')
+ 1).toLowerCase();
sPageName = sPageName.substr(0, sPageName.lastIndexOf('.'));
if (document.getElementById(sPageName))
{
    document.getElementById(sPageName).style.fontWeigh t='Bold';
    document.getElementById(sPageName).style.fontSize= '14pt';
}
</script><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td><h2>Welcome to GlobalSoccerEvents.com</h2></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Your Source for Soccer Events Around the Globe.
    <br>

      <% If Session("UserName") = "" Then %>Please enter your name and hit the "Tell Us your Name" button <br><br>
<br><form action="home.asp" method="post" name="frmUserName"><input name="txtUserName" type="text"><input name="btnSubmit" type="submit" value="Tell Us Your Name"></form><% Else %>
      Welcome, <%=Session("Username") %>.
      <% End If %>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="center"><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Having difficulties? Contact the Webmaster
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Imar · November 2nd, 2004, 05:08 PM

Hi Iain,

Are you sure it's not related to Sessions or cookies? I just copied and pasted your code in my TheSoccerSite trial site, and everything worked as expected.
Maybe a firewall or other software is blocking your cookies.... Can you try a simple example? (If you want, I can provide sample code for that)

And wat's the name of the file you're trying this with? Are you posting back to home.asp??

Cheers,

Imar
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ukbrit · November 2nd, 2004, 06:40 PM

Imar
The file name is home.asp and I am posting back to it. I have checked and Session and Cookies are enabled and I have tried turning off my Firewall but to no avail. I don't know how else to check if cookies are enabled so if yo have instructions/code to check then I would appreciate it.

regards

Iain

Imar · November 3rd, 2004, 04:07 AM

Hi there,

To try this out, create two new pages called Page1.asp and Page2.asp.

In the <body> of Page1.asp add the following code:

Code:

<%
    Response.Cookies("Test") = "This is a test of a cookie"
    Session("Test") = "This is a test of a session variable"

    Response.Redirect("Page2.asp")
%>

Between the <body> tags of page two add this code:

Code:

<%

    Response.Write("Cookie has a value of " & Request.Cookies("Test") & "<br />")
    Response.Write("Session has a value of " & Session("Test") & "<br />")

%>

Load Page1.asp in your browser. It should redirect you to the second page, showing you the values of Cookie and the Session variable, respectively.

Let me know if this works so we can work on the main problem of the Home.asp page.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

ukbrit · November 3rd, 2004, 05:22 AM

Dear Imar

Thank you for this. As stated I have both sessions and cookies enabled. I am using Zone Alarm (ZA) Professional. In the Privacy tab of ZA I have Cookie Control turned off; ie Cookie control is disabled and all cookies are allowed. When I run your test program I get the following message

"Cookie has a value of
Session has a value of"

However when I close down ZA altogether and run the test program I get:

"Cookie has a value of This is a test of a cookie
Session has a value of This is a test of a session variable"

I take it the latter message is correct?

It would appear that my ZA Firewall is the problem. It would appear that turning off Cookie control in ZA is not sufficient; I have to close the program down altogether! Surely, this cannot be right?

Regards

Iain

Imar · November 3rd, 2004, 06:55 AM

I don't know much about ZA, but apparently it is blocking your cookies (Sessions in ASP work with a Cookie as well).

Maybe there is an option in ZA to allow session cookies? Or to add your development machine to the trusted site?

The latter message is indeed correct; with ZA turned off, I'm sure that Home.asp will work as well.

Cheers,

Imar
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Everyone is unique, except for me.