Peter Bromberg's UnBlog

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jef Raskin Recently we had a forum question on eggheadcafe.com where the user indicated they were losing Session because of the use of FRAMESET or an IFRAME. If you implement a FRAMESET where frames point to other Web sites on the networks of your partners or inside your network, but you use different top-level domain names, you may notice in Internet Explorer 6 that any cookies you try to set in those frames are lost. This is most frequently experienced as a loss of session state in an Active Server Pages (ASP) or ASP.NET Web application. You try to access a variable in the Session object that you expect to exist, and it is null. You can also see this problem in a FRAMEs context if your Web pages alternate between the use of Domain Name System (DNS) names and the use of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The fix is very si...

There was a post on one of the groups recently by a developer who was making a number of WebRequests for various pages, claiming that one of them would strangely fail. Yet, this individual stated that if he would paste the respective URL into his browser, that page would come up just fine. There are several things that could come into play here with various sites: 1) Many sites will reject a request that doesn't match a particular one or more User Agent strings ( Here are some samples , if your memory is rusty). So you can add the UserAgent header to the WebRequest. I've even seen some wise-asses who detect Internet Exploder and give you a nasty message about how immoral you are and you should go download Firefox to become a real person and how dare you try to view my site with ..etc... (Listen, Pal: I already figured out you are a Webtard, so I'm not going to bother to fire up my copy of Firefox to see your page, which I already know is worthless. Besides, your little shen...