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c#.netasp.netsessionid
meetpd
meetpd

Reputation: 9219

How to ensure that Session ID does not expire when new browser window of same website is opened?

I have a ASP.NET website.

Here's what happens:

So, can you please let me know how to ensure that Session ID does not expire when we open the site in another browser window?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1553

Answers (2)

The Evil Greebo
The Evil Greebo

Reputation: 7138

To add a somewhat more simple answer to Michael's excellent response - the short answer thus is "You can't directly achieve this".

But what you CAN do is implement tracking within your application so that you are always aware of what a user's last action was, and no matter what session they come in on, forcibly keep them in your designated workflow.

To achieve that, however, you have to basically ignore session variables (which may be a good idea anyway ;)) and the like and implement a framework that constantly tracks a users behavior, current location and any other related information. There's obviously a lot of overhead involved but that's the only way I know of to ensure that a certain user will always end up where you desire them to end up when they log in from different browsers, machines, etc.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Petito
Michael Petito

Reputation: 13161

The session is not expiring because you've opened a new window; the new window must not have the cookie used to store the session-id. Most of the time, these cookies are transient or "session" based cookies.

Session cookies may or may not be shared between browser windows, depending on the browser and how you open the new window. For ex., in IE 9, a new window launched using Javascript, Ctrl+N, or Ctrl+T will share session cookies. However, a new window launched by going to File / New Session will not share session cookies.

You also wont see cookies shared between different browsers (for ex., IE and Firefox).

Upvotes: 5

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