Cookie Request on IIS6.0 and Windows Server 2003

I have some clarifications with regards to any backward compatibility of Windows 2003.

We did deploy several web application (ASP Classic) using Windows 2000 and only one Windows 2003 hardware.

For some reasons, we did receive an intermittent error on cookies handling on the account/campaign where the application happens to reside in a Windows 2003 server which has IIS 6.0. And haven't got to encounter the same error on other accounts residing on Windows 2000.

Is there any issues with regards to request of cookies or IIS version capability/limitations on web applications/ cookies setting in Windows server 2003 ?

Any immediate response would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

On a clean install of Windows Server 2003, it is configured to run in IIS6
Worker Process Isolation Mode, which will:
1. Recycle worker process, which contain ASP code and state, every 29 hours
2. Recycle worker process after 15 minutes (default) of inactivity

Either of these actions can cause loss of ASP application state, including
cookies, sessions, etc that are not persisted.

Both of these actions happen to improve reliability/monitoring, but they can
also inadvertently affect applications unless tuned to your specific needs.
#1 happens to deal with badly behaving applications that may be leaking
memory, etc.
#2 happens to conserve system resources.

What you want to do is:
1. Decide on a recycling policy that is sufficient for your use. We chose
every 29 hours, but you may want to make it once a week at 3am or something
2. Make sure that the worker process idle timeout is longer than the session
timeout. i.e. if your session times out in 30 minutes, make sure the idle
time is something like 31 or 35 minutes to make sure that the recycle does
not happen in the middle of your unpersisted session.

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//David
IIS
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"ie0302" <anonymous.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have some clarifications with regards to any backward compatibility of
Windows 2003.

We did deploy several web application (ASP Classic) using Windows 2000 and
only one Windows 2003 hardware.

For some reasons, we did receive an intermittent error on cookies handling
on the account/campaign where the application happens to reside in a Windows
2003 server which has IIS 6.0. And haven't got to encounter the same error
on other accounts residing on Windows 2000.

Is there any issues with regards to request of cookies or IIS version
capability/limitations on web applications/ cookies setting in Windows
server 2003 ?

Any immediate response would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,