Cookies, Session and switching between plain HTTP and SSL Urls in ASP.NET

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 02 Jan 2006 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

I ran into some real nastiness with cookies and domain name attachments today. One of my customers mentioned that in one of our applications the switch to a secure links caused the Session to basically dump all items that were previously set. This particular app is a custom West Wind Web Store app, and it would basically dump the user attachment that was stored in a session object.   The problem occurs whenever a user comes into the store with a URL that is west-wind.com instead of www.west-wind.com....

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