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Tono Nam
Tono Nam

Reputation: 36058

Why is session not saved in a simple hello world example web service

I have the following web service:

[WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
[System.ComponentModel.ToolboxItem(false)]
public class Test : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
    [WebMethod(EnableSession=true)]
    public void SetSession()
    {
        HttpContext.Current.Session["Test"] = true;
    }

    [WebMethod(EnableSession = true)]
    public bool IsSessionSaved()
    {
        var temp = HttpContext.Current.Session["Test"];
        return temp != null;
    }
}

Note I have the EnableSession = true.

On my client I have added a Web Service Reference NOT a Service Reference.

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Note: In order to create a web service reference instead of the default service reference that visual studio adds for you I followed this steps.

and on my client console appication I have:

var client = new Test();

client.SetSession();

bool isSessionSaved = client.IsSessionSaved();

Why is isSessionSaved = false?

Update: I don't think the problem is in the web service it works if I invoke the methods through the default website. I am sure the client is not saving the cookies. Perhaps I need a cookie aware client. I might need to modify the client.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 311

Answers (2)

John Garrard
John Garrard

Reputation: 167

Session state runs off of the session cookie, in order to support cookies you need to add a cookie container to your soap client.

    CookieContainer cookieJar = new CookieContainer();
    client.CookieContainer = cookieJar;

On a WCF service client the equivalent would be setting allowCookies="true" on the httpbinding configuration.

Upvotes: 1

Bura Chuhadar
Bura Chuhadar

Reputation: 3751

You have to install Session configuration on IIS.

This is the link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725624(v=ws.10).aspx

Upvotes: 0

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