IIS Session variables / cross-access from PHP <-> ASP.NET

[Marco Ippolito]

Hi guys, what options are there to use, for example, a string stored in the
Session context by an ASP.NET page, from within, say, a PHP script?
Thanks! - Marco

 

[Guest]

You can share a cookie on the same domain. I'm doing it with a 4D web site
and .NET and it works fine. You have to be part of the same domain though.
You can share across sub-domains as well. For instance, we are using
www.mysite.com and www2.mysite.com. When you create or load the cookie we set
the domain = .mysite.com. You can't really test it from your local machine so
if you have a test environment that follows this format you can test it
there. Basically because you can't create a cookie for a domain if you aren't
part of that domain.

HTH

 

[Marco Ippolito]

Hey ENIZIN, thanks for the tip. Good idea for string values! Guess for
more complex data objects one would always resort to XML serialisation or
even more complex models, right? Sounds like a big shame to have your object
in "session" memory and not be able to point to it and cast it to a PHP
structure.. Or have the PHP wizards already thought about that too?
[always been impressed by their control of COM, for instance!]