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c#asp.netsessionauthentication
mohsen
mohsen

Reputation: 1806

Why is HttpContext.Current null during the Session_End event?

I want to count my users and this is the code below that is in my dll file:

public static class UserCount
{
    public static void add()
    {
        HttpContext.Current.Application.Lock();
        int count = (int) HttpContext.Current.Application["CountOfUsers"];
        count++;
        HttpContext.Current.Application["CountOfUsers"]=count;
        HttpContext.Current.Application.UnLock();
    }

    public static void subtract()
    {   
        HttpContext.Current.Application.Lock();//error : HttpContext.Current is null. why?
        int count = (int) HttpContext.Current.Application["CountOfUsers"];
        count--;
        HttpContext.Current.Application["CountOfUsers"]=count;
        HttpContext.Current.Application.UnLock();
    }
}

I have set Session.TimeOut=1; and after one minute the the method below in Global.asax file, this will run:

    protected void Session_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        UserCount.subtract();
    }

Why is HttpContext.Current null in the subtract method causing it to throw an exception?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9744

Answers (1)

rene
rene

Reputation: 42494

On Session_End there is no communication necessarily involved with the browser so there is no HttpContext to refer to which explains why it is null.

Looking at your code you seem to be intersted in the Application cache. That is available via Application property on the HttpApplication instance.

If you create an overload on your UserCount class that takes an HttpApplicationState you'll be fine:

public static void subtract(HttpApplicationState appstate)
{
    appstate.Lock();
    int count = (int) appstate["CountOfUsers"];
    count--;
    appstate["CountOfUsers"]=count;
    appstate.UnLock();
}

You can use this from Session_End like so:

protected void Session_End(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    UserCount.subtract(Application);
}

This works because global_asax is technically an subclass from HttpApplication and so all its members are accessible from the global_asax file.

The other implementation of substract can be used when there is an HttpContext.

Upvotes: 4

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