Mark, Are you sure they had cookies enabled? By default, sessions rely on a cookie that's written to the user's browser. If cookies are disabled, you'll have to manually send the cfid and cftoken variables to the URL. This will keep the sessions intact.
-Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Leder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:21 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: SESSION question > > Can Session variables sometimes be blocked or otherwise corrupted by > passing through a corporate firewall? > > Here's a scenario: I have a login screen where session variables are > created and then "passed" to a welcome screen. Depending on location of > where a client computer is, the variables may or may not get passed (I > found this out because the client was doing a demo from a large > university site using NS 6.2 and had this problem-threw an error, but I, > using the same browser on a small network in another part of the > country, was able to have the session vars passed successfully - I > couldn't replicate the problem on three different computers with 7 > different browsers). I have the pages programmatically set not to cache > to a client's computer. > > Is there something else I should be doing or not doing? > > <!--- If authenticated, create session variables ---> > <!--- The "GetUser" is the query from the db ---> > <CFLOCK TIMEOUT="10" THROWONTIMEOUT="No" TYPE="EXCLUSIVE" > SCOPE="SESSION"> > <CFSET SESSION.Auth = StructNew()> > <CFSET SESSION.Auth.IsLoggedIn = "Yes"> > <CFSET SESSION.Auth.ContactID = GetUser.U_ID> > <CFSET SESSION.Auth.First_Name = GetUser.First_Name> > <CFSET SESSION.Auth.Last_Name = GetUser.Last_Name> > </cflock> > > <!--- On the welcome page ---> > Welcome <cfoutput><FONT > color="##000000">#SESSION.Auth.First_Name# #SESSION.Auth.Last_Name# > </FONT>.</cfoutput> > > Thanks, > Mark > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
