session variables getting overwritten

[Rahul Chatterjee]

Hello All

I have 2 websites both using different style sheets (.css). The stylesheets
are stored in a session variable and get set at the time the site gets
invoked. What is happening is something like this.

I bring up the first site and navigate around. Everything is okay. The
stylesheets are correct and so on and so forth. When I click on a link to go
to the other site from the first site (I create a new instance of the
browser), that site comes up fine too, but the stylesheet of my first site
is reset to the stylesheet of the new site that I just opened.

Both these sites are mirror images of each other - i.e. they share the same
variables and represent similar information.

Is there any way to separate the session variables so that they dont clobber
each other.

Thanks

 

[Patrice]

Is this two web applications ? If yes, they shouldn't share the session
variables. For a start you could try to see which sessionid you have on both
sites...

 

[Rahul Chatterjee]

The web site is the same but for different clients, they do different
things - for example client A I could be displaying their HealthCare info
and for Client B I could be accepting data. The general look and feel of the
website is the same and they all work of common pages. When each client
enters the website through their own url, they get redirected to a common
page which deciphers who the client is and then opens up appropriate pages
for them and sets the appropriate stylesheets for them. The values of the
stylesheets are set in session variables.

Shouldnt the sessionIDs be different if we open up the sites in separate
instances of browsers? How could one sessionID be the same as the other if
the browsers are different? How would you check the sessionID? Is it just
response.write .......Excuse my questions but I am a relative newbie to
this.. COuld you explain this to me a little more elaborately

Thanks

 

[Rahul Chatterjee]

I just found out that when I open the link from within the first session,
the browser retains the first sessionID . If I open a new browser and
explicitly type in the URL, a new session ID is generated. In the first
method, I open the link using target="new"

Is there a way to create a new sessionID in the former manner

thanks

 

[Mark Schupp]

If the page you are jumping to is in the same application then there will be
only one session. You need to have 2 applications. You should be able to do
this by mapping 2 virtual directories to a single physical directory. Then
jump between virtual directories to have separate sessions.