Session Variables Issue

Hi, I'm putting together my first shop.
I have built and tested on
IE6, then upgraded to IE7 & Firefox 2 XP PRo
IE7 XP Home
All is well and the site works fine on the XP machines. Each
client / Browser retaining its own shopping cart information.
Allowing for different users to select items.
A friend has given me 2 old machines to build a testing
workstation for browser compatability. These are both IE6 Win98
machnes although 1 will be changing. Despite a few layout issues
all seemed fine. Until I added things to the shopping basket.
It seems IE6 now (at least certainly under Win98) cannot
persist the session data across pages. I'm not sure if this could
be related to how they are conntected together (using a 10/100
switch) or if there is a setting in IE6 which would prevent this
(not sure how this would be the case) or, more worrying, am I doing
something wrong. My session/cart information is based heavily upon
the CFMX7 Web Application Contruction Kit example. So I'm not sure
what I could have done wrong.
Here is the code below. Its using NAte Wiess' own CFC and
works perfectly in IE7 and I Think IE6 on XP
Any suggestions.

or if there is a setting in IE6 which would prevent this (not
sure how
this would be the case)
This is a very likely concern to investigate. For sessions to
work
correctly, by default, cookies must be enabled in the
browser. If the
browser has been configured to not accept cookies, then every
request
made from that browser creates a new session on the server.
If you want your sessions to work without cookies you can
pass the CFID
and CFTOKEN values that define an individual session through
URL
variables. This does take some work to make sure every link,
form and
any other interaction that generates a new request to the web
server
pass these values.
There are aides in ColdFusion to help you with this process,
check the
documentation for all the fun details.

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(OR)
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As an aside, I don't get if the true allocation of RAM occurs at install time (implying non-selected applications eat up RAM), or at application selection (implying hidden extra overhead).
I dream of an equivalent for the C idiom "struct of state variables". Are these issues discussed, in a Sun manual, or elsewhere? Is there a better way?
Other desperate questions: does a C compiler that output Javacard bytecode make sense/exists? Or a usable Javacard bytecode assembler?
Francois Grieu

Interesting post.
I don't have a solution to your problem, but caching the session variables arrays in local variable arrays is a good start. This should be only done when the applet is in context, e.g. selected or accessed through the shareable interface. This values should be written back to EEPROM at e.g. deselect or some other important point of time. Do you run into problems if a tear happens? I don't think so since the session variables should be transactional, and a defined point will commit a transaction.
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It is extremely frustrating as you can't even get a simple 10-15 line email drafted without losing work and having to log back in.
This issue appears to be intermittent as I've had this problem off and on for months now. It will happen for a while, then stop, then start happening again.
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Workflow #2:
Login to my account
Click view all email
Open Drafts Folder
Open draft email response
Select "Send" to send email (total in session time of 30 seconds)
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I have no idea if my email was successfully sent or not.
Workflow #3:
Login to my account
Click view all email
Attempted to open the first new email in my inbox (total time in session <15 seconds)
System throws session timeout error and kicks me out to the main login.
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I'm trying to add a condition to my report in order to flag all opportunities that have a close date that is in the past. The way I'm trying to do this is by adding a condition to say when close date is less than current_date, flag the column with an image.
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Ok the first question to be asked is why it is null?
The most obvious answer is that you have cookies disabled, and are not using URL rewriting.
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To confirm this print out session.getId() on your pages. If it continually changes, you aren't keeping your session. If it remains the same, you HAVE got a session, and need to check why you are putting a null value there.
To retain session, you need to run every link/url that gets printed to your page through the method response.encodeURL() which will add on the session id manually if cookies are not supported.
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I have an issue in controlling date format in prompts using session variable which I am using to set default value.
By default date format is timestamp E.g '2010-12-19 12:00:00 AM'.
As per requriement(s) I customized the date format in Reports as 19-Dec-2010 and I saved it as "System Wide Default for <Date Column Name> "
So, I got desired format in Reports and Date Prompts.
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I've been having this problem for a long time so I thought
I'd post again and maybe get a hit this time.
We run off windows cfmx 7.x now fully patched, prior to that
we were on cfmx 6.x. We use session management only. Many times on
a new page hit the user loses about half of their session variables
up to all of them. Typically we have them test on the same machine
using different browsers. 99% of the time switching from IE to
firefox solves the problem, most of the users have had IE 6.x.
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window to our application and the session information would persist
to the new window but the parent window would receive a new cfid
and lose all session information. New windows aren't the only
issue, we see a lot of lost session variables in one click, same
window, functionality. I've had hooks in place to test if the
domain was different on page hits removing the www or something but
so far have not found anything there. Each time a new CFID is being
issued and they are losing the original. We attempted to put CFID's
in the URL at all times but that leads to other issues and didn't
solve the problem for us anyhow.
This has been a serious issue for awhile and browsing these
forums I see others are experiencing it to some extent too. I'm
wondiner if anyone has any tips or can confirm the CF Admin/app.cfc
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right... response.sendRedirect(). sendRedirect works by sending a repsonse to the browser with a location header. The browser sees that header and makes a new, separate request to the new location. It's no different then typing the location in the location bar in the browser or clicking a link.
But that doesn't matter. If you have 2 web applications (aka 2 servlet contexts) on the server, they are not going to share sessions between them. So the first page is working off one session in one context with some ID. Then the redirect sends it to another page in a different context. That session ID is not valid in that 2nd context, so a new session is created like it was a first time user. And if you redirect back, you may not get the same session for the first context, unless the session ID cookie defines the path as well (I'm not sure offhand).
The "application" object is the servlet context, specifically a javax.servlet.ServletContext object (or implementation of the interface, technically). Nothing is shared between contexts.
Now, you can always share things in one way or another. Store things in a database or in files. Use a messaging system like SOAP or JMS. Maybe the server allows for contexts to access each other (they aren't shared in that case, just that you can get a named context and read what's stored in it).
Or don't have your separate contexts, use subdirectories in the same context.

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using an Application.cfC, not cfM), I have a cfif loop that passes
a value to a custom tag and returns a form variable. I'm then
reassigning that variable to a session variable. In IE, this works
just fine; in Firefox, though, the session variable is NOT being
set.
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another demo application to set a testing user. However, after
further testing, I realize that demo app won't function properly
with this application, so I've removed it.
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application that I am working on is going to be a sub-application
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a session variable as well (I think...). However, I'm creating a
new session variable for this application, and simply passing the
authenticated user into my app (the outer app uses the variable
auth_user; I'm using the variable authuser, so there is no name
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is doing so. I have looked in the advanced settings for IE, and
there is nothing about persisting session variables to check or
uncheck. Also, this application will probably be used mostly by
users using IE 6 with default settings, so I'm going to need to
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Some users had to revert back to IE6 and it worked fine. Is there something they did wrong with ther IE update or is there some sort of server hot fix for this?
Hope someone can help... i'm baffled.

That forum you posted is definitely my issue! However it still is unresolved and the users have yet to pinpoint the cause (just like me). I too firmly believe its due to an IE7 upgrade b/c that is when this happens.
I've checked out the user cookies. I used this script and put it on my server and had the user try it:
http://www.bennadel.com/blog/730-Testing-ColdFusion-Session-Cookie-Acceptance.htm
The cookies are passing over to the next pages fine (this script showed a success on the user machines). But ye the sessions are lost in my app. the CFID and CFTOKEN are changing when the user clicks to go to another page after login.
In fact I have the CF8 server monitor up and running and when someone logs in I can see the their session info under the MEMORY USAGE --> Sessions by memory usage.
I'm finding that users with this issue can log in fine but the session never gets registered with the server?!? Their CFID and CFTOKEN is not showing as an active session and when they click to another page their CFID is always different than their original?
Any thoughts?

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