Cookie Problems

[Simon Dean]

Hi,

I believe I have a website (I didn't do the original coding) which uses
JavaScript to generate cookies.

It's a shopping cart application called UCart I believe.

The technologies involved are:

ASP
JavaScript
IIS
Microsoft Access

Im transferring this to a new host but am finding a problem with
Cookies. On the previous host, it was solved by them configuring the
server to place the website into a "lower contention session pool".

Has anyone heard of this, or can they offer any ideas as to how this
might be effected programmatically, or what a suggested alternative
might be.

To be honest Im having trouble figuring this mess out and how its all
called.

Thanks
Simon


Here is a snippet of code.

Im having trouble understanding the correlation between JavaScript and
ASP and although the code appears to be within <SCRIPT
LANGUAGE=JavaScript RUNAT=Server NAME="UC_CART"> tags,I gather that it
using Sessions on the server through ASP.

What's happening is that in the process, two Session Id's are being
generated.

// Each of these is an array. Each array index corresponds to a line item.
// As such, each array should always be exactly the same length.
this.AssertCartValid(colNames, "Cart Initialization: ");
if (Session(this.Name) != null) {
this.SC = Session(this.Name).SC;
} else {
this.SC = new Array(this.numCols);
for (var i = 0; i < this.numCols; i++) this.SC = new Array();

// Since the cart doesn't exist in session, check for cookie from
previous session
if (this.bStoreCookie){
cookieName = this.GetCookieName();
cookieStr = Request.Cookies(cookieName);
if (cookieStr != null && String(cookieStr) != "undefined" &&
cookieStr != "")
this.PopulateFromCookie(cookieStr);
}
// Create a reference in the Session, pass the whole object (methods
are not copied)
this.persist();
}

function SetCookie(){
var cookieName = this.GetCookieName()
var cookieStr = this.GetContentsSerial(this.cookieColDel,
this.cookieRowDel)
var cookieExp = GetCookieExp(this.cookieLifetime)
Response.Cookies(cookieName) = cookieStr
Response.Cookies(cookieName).expires = cookieExp
}

function UCpersist() {
Session(this.Name) = this;
if (this.bStoreCookie) this.SetCookie();
}

 

[My Pet Programmer]

Simon Dean said:

Hi,

I believe I have a website (I didn't do the original coding) which uses
JavaScript to generate cookies.

It's a shopping cart application called UCart I believe.

The technologies involved are:

ASP
JavaScript
IIS
Microsoft Access

Im transferring this to a new host but am finding a problem with
Cookies. On the previous host, it was solved by them configuring the
server to place the website into a "lower contention session pool".

Has anyone heard of this, or can they offer any ideas as to how this
might be effected programmatically, or what a suggested alternative
might be.

To be honest Im having trouble figuring this mess out and how its all
called.

Thanks
Simon


Here is a snippet of code.

Im having trouble understanding the correlation between JavaScript and
ASP and although the code appears to be within <SCRIPT
LANGUAGE=JavaScript RUNAT=Server NAME="UC_CART"> tags,I gather that it
using Sessions on the server through ASP.

What's happening is that in the process, two Session Id's are being
generated.

// Each of these is an array. Each array index corresponds to a line item.
// As such, each array should always be exactly the same length.
this.AssertCartValid(colNames, "Cart Initialization: ");
if (Session(this.Name) != null) {
this.SC = Session(this.Name).SC;
} else {
this.SC = new Array(this.numCols);
for (var i = 0; i < this.numCols; i++) this.SC = new Array();

// Since the cart doesn't exist in session, check for cookie
from previous session
if (this.bStoreCookie){
cookieName = this.GetCookieName();
cookieStr = Request.Cookies(cookieName);
if (cookieStr != null && String(cookieStr) != "undefined" &&
cookieStr != "")
this.PopulateFromCookie(cookieStr);
}
// Create a reference in the Session, pass the whole object
(methods are not copied)
this.persist();
}

function SetCookie(){
var cookieName = this.GetCookieName()
var cookieStr = this.GetContentsSerial(this.cookieColDel,
this.cookieRowDel)
var cookieExp = GetCookieExp(this.cookieLifetime)
Response.Cookies(cookieName) = cookieStr
Response.Cookies(cookieName).expires = cookieExp
}

function UCpersist() {
Session(this.Name) = this;
if (this.bStoreCookie) this.SetCookie();
}

This looks like a question for the ASP group, although I apologize for
not having a clue which NG that might be.

Whenever you see Response., you're in the realm of the server and ASP,
and not so much in the client sider interop we work with over here.

All the best,
~A!

--
Anthony Levensalor
(e-mail address removed)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein