IIS 6 Random Session Problem

External Since: Apr 30, 2004 Posts: 5

I seem to have a random problem with session variables that did not exist
with IIS 5

If you load this page
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="https://wic005u.server-secure.com/vs149732_secure/testcart2.asp" target="_blank">https://wic005u.server-secure.com/vs149732_secure/testcart2.asp</a>

and press F5 a couple of time you will eventually get this error

<<
Microsoft JScript runtime error '800a138f'
'SC' is null or not an object
>>

Now the odd part is I know I'm not lossing the session nor does the
SessionID change
This is the code for the page

<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<%
function MyCartObj(Name) {
this.SC = null;
this.Name = Name;

// METHODS
this.Persist = MyClassPersist;

if (Session(Name) != null)
{
Response.Write(String(Session.SessionID) + "<br>"); // debug
this.SC = Session(Name).SC;
}
else
{
this.SC = "Loaded"; // a simple test but normally an array
this.Persist();
}
}

function MyClassPersist() {
var sObj = new Object();
sObj.SC = this.SC;
Session(this.Name) = sObj;
var sObj = null;
}
%>

<%
var UCII = new MyCartObj("MyTestSession");
var UCII__i = 0;
%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<%=UCII.SC%>
</body>
</html>

Any ideas on what this might be as I have code similar to this above in
VBScript and JavaScript on a thousand or more website and as they migrate to
windows 2003 they randomly display this error?

Now I've done some searching via google for sessions and iis 6 and the most
common answer is application pooling but that does not apply as application
pooling is not setup as a web garden and the option in the following
article - <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.iisfaq.com/default.aspx?View=A560&P=1" target="_blank">http://www.iisfaq.com/default.aspx?View=A560&P=1</a> - is not enabled.

I'm just at a total loss here...and any help would be most appreciative.

--

JScavitto

External Since: Feb 03, 2004 Posts: 423

Hi,

I've refresh the page for many times and haven't gotten reproduce the
error. Probably the issue is related to client browser configuration,
take a look at the following KB:

You Cannot View Updates on the Windows Update Site Using Secure
Socket Layer
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=326253

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Support
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