Hi Mike, There's no way for ASP and CF to see or use each-other's persisten variables ( request, application, etc. ) natively... In order to make the transition, you'll have to add something to the login script for the ASP shop that will as an example, post login info to a CF page in a hidden frame in order to set session variables in CF ... the problem then becomes that the CF session variables will timeout if the user is wandering around the ASP shop and not hitting any CF pages for a while...
There are a number of things you can try to work around this problem, including the use of cookies ( assuming both the ASP and the CF share a domain name you should be able to set and retrieve cookies from the browser without having to care whether the current page is ASP or CF ) and the use of database to store session info ( slower, more complicated, need to pay special attention to security -- possibly more reliable for paranoid users who tend to block all cookies or who are on networks with paranoid admins who block all cookies through the firewall). Isaac Dealey www.turnkey.to 954-776-0046 > One of my clients has a shop built in .asp which amongst other > things grants access to parts of the site based on their payments > or subscription status. I want to grant or deny access to my > coldfusion apps based on the same information. > > Has anyone ever picked up session vars created by .asp and used > them in cf apps? I'm talking about validating a user based on > his shopper id created in asp. Is this as easy for me to use > as it is in cf generated session vars? > > (written as a real .asp beginner here) ______________________________________________________________________ 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/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
