Thanks Barry, The weird thing is not that it doesn't work, just that it is transferring session data from one computer to another.
E.g. I log in on my computer as me, all the pages are headed Welcome Tom. I go to another machine that I've never logged in on before, log in as someone else, say Joe Bloggs. The first page says Welcome Joe, but if I click on a link the new page says Welcome Tom. If I refresh, it says Welcome Joe. This happens for each page I visit, but once a page has been visited it will always correctly display Welcome Joe. So back to my own computer, click on a link and it says Welcome Joe. Refresh and it says Welcome Tom. And back and forth. The welcome name is stored in a session scope structure and called by session.thisuser.user_firstname. My problem was that I thought that session scope variable applied only to a particular browser. The data must be caching somewhere. While I recognise that there may be ways of getting around the problem by forcing the browser to request a unique page (as per Adam's suggestion yesterday) what I'd prefer to do is find where/why the page is misbehaving and fix that. Thanks, Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 10:21 AM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] RE: Weird session behaviour Tom, this probably isn't it, but IIS 5 had issues with dropping the session (text) cookie value (that's passed between browser and webserver and is used to match the request to the particular session on the webserver) when the webserver name (or host name or website name) contained any "illegal" chars (like underscores, etc: "http://d12_04/website";). it was for an intranet and caused all our sessions not to work until the machine name was changed or it was ailased in IIS. as I said, prob isn't it. but just in case... HTH good luck barry.b > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom > MacKean > Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 9:51 AM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] RE: Weird session behaviour > > > Thanks Chad and Andrew, > > Chad, I tried the locking thing, but no luck. > > Andrew, I'm going to do as you suggest and hit the db with every page. > The site is a small content management system for our main site so > there is not much action on it and this should be no problem. > Thanks for your > help. I'll let you know how it goes. > > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew > Scott > Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 9:37 AM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] RE: Weird session behaviour > > Tom, > > When using session variables you are using cookies to identify this > when opening a browser window, the problem is that cookies are small > files that can NOT hold complex data so I find this strange coming > from an IT guy. > > I personally hate sticking things in the session variables, but if you > could explain in a bit more detail the process. For example. > > 1) User logs in > 2) User is checked for roles > Etc.. > > I personally have a tag that hits the db every page hit, double checks > the user is there and sets up the required roles etc. > > Now I noticed that you have Application.Users but you don't say how > your getting this info in to this scope, I would maybe say that there > is a problem there. If you would like to send me a copy of these codes > so that I can see the application.users in action I might be able to > help you out here. > > > > Regards > Andrew Scott > Technical Consultant > > NuSphere Pty Ltd > Level 2/33 Bank Street > South Melbourne, Victoria, 3205 > > Phone: 03 9686 0485 - Fax: 03 9699 7976 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom > MacKean > Sent: Friday, 8 April 2005 9:28 AM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] RE: Weird session behaviour > > Our IT guy says that we are not using proxy caching, and does not > think that this is the problem (I know nothing about proxy caching) > > Can you explain how it works? > > He says "why not use cookies?". I've never used cookies. Is it > possible to store this kind of structure data in a cookie? 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