Re: Sessions in multiple windows with IE

by Eric Anderson <eric_anderson(at)hrsoft.com>

Date:	Mon, 03 Jul 2000 16:45:12 -0500
To:	<gary(at)BonhamDesigns.com>, "Hwg-Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>, <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	BonhamDesigns
	todo: View Thread, Original

Hi All!

What we have found here is that IE4 has a known bug about establishing a 
new SessionID when a second window is spawned from a page.  Although I 
cannot remember the URL off the top of my head, there is an article at MSDN 
about this.  IE5+ and NN did not exhibit this behavior.

Our work around was to pass all necessary information in the URL and open 
the second window with the Location toolbar.  Not secure, but then again, 
we didn't need it to be.

Hope this helps,
Eric

At 01:18 PM 7/3/2000 -0700, Gary Bonham wrote:
>In using multiple windows, launched via Javascript from a first window, IE
>will often get in a mode where each window has a different sessionID and
>cannot share data, via session variables, with other windows. At first I
>thought it had something to do with the option "Launch Browser Windows in a
>Separate Process", but now I'm not so sure. Has anyone else run into this
>problem, or has anyone any insight into why it happens and how to prevent
>it? Note that IE5.01 eliminates this option (the Launch Browser... option
>mentioned above) and automatically turns it on whenever you have more than
>32K of ram. Thus, turning it off isn't really an option any more. I fear
>that other means have to be employed to utilize multiple windows in an
>online app.
>
>Gary Bonham

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