ASP SESSIONS TUTORIALS : SESSION OBJECTS AND VARIABLES LESSONS

ASP Session Transfer Across Domains - You may have come across a situation where you have two ASP websites, possibly on different servers, and you wish to pass a visitor from site 1 to site 2 whilst retaining all the session variables.

Maintaining Session State With ASP - Sessions and cookies can be used to persist visitor information. In this article Himanshu shows us how to main session state with ASP using a combination of cookies, sessions and the global.asa file.Session and application variables are an important part of ASP programming. Whether it's developing simple hit counters or developing advanced chat servers, session and application variables are a must have feature of many applications.

Setting a Session Variable - Here is the scripting that sets the session variable:

ASP101 - Session Object - Session Object Contents: Contains the items that you have added to the session with script commands. StaticObjects: Contains the objects created with the OBJECT tag and given session scope.

Session.LCID (LOCALE ID) - If you have developed international web sites, you had to format dates, numbers, currecy, etc. yourself and relying on the version of Windows that was installed on the server was no good idea in case you moved sites from say The United States to a United Kingdom provider. With IIS4 and IIS5 (Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 respectively) you only need to set the LOCALE ID (Session.LCID) and everything is done for you. The Session.LCID is a read/write property, meaning you can assign a value to it as well as read its current value.

Listing Session and Application Variables
Have you ever wondered how to list all of your Session and Application variables? Both the Session and Application objects provide the Contents collection, which contains all of the session and application variables that are not objects (i.e., arrays, strings, integers, etc.).

ASP Session Object - The Session object is used to store information about, or change settings for a user session. Variables stored in the Session object hold information about one single user, and are available to all pages in one application.

When Session Variables Go Bad - So you've heard the stories about how bad it is to use Session variables in an ASP application. In the newgroups, one of the more frequent topics deals with the saving of state in a Web application. Specifically, comparing the ease of use and speed of Session variables versus the overhead of using a database or the awkwardness of hidden fields or query strings. Unfortunately, the simplicity of Session variables comes at the cost of scalability. But is that enough of a reason to ignore them completely? The purpose of the article is to examine the pros and cons of Session variables and provide suggestions that you can apply to your own situation.

Minwar - The Session Object - The Session Object is used to identify users of the application, once a user visited one page of the application a session object is seted for him. Session object can be useful for site counters and for login, a very common use of the session object is for login

Minwar - Session Object Explained - What is a session? A session is started when I user hits your website. A session is ended when a user either closes his/her browser or the session timeout is reached.