passing a session variable

[dhborchardt]

I can response.write the session variable on the first page where I declare it, but cant get it on the second page. Could somebody give me a clue as to what the problem could be?

'first page 24ProcAddEdit.asp
Session("sv24MEID&quot = strMEID
Response.Write Session("sv24MEID&quot


'second page
'Begin HOW DID WE GET HERE
If InStr(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER&quot, "24ProcAddEdit.asp&quot Then
strQSMEID = Session("sv24MEID&quot
Response.Write "You came from 24"
Response.Write strQSMEID
Response.Write Session("sv24MEID&quot
ElseIf InStr(Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER&quot, "20AddNewME.asp&quot Then
strQSMEID =Request.QueryString ("MEID&quot
Response.Write "You came from 20"
Else
Response.Write "Where did you come from?"
strQSMEID = "793"
End If
'End HOW DID WE GET HERE

 

[BDC2]

What is contained in the session variable and what output do you get on each of the pages?

BDC.

 

[dhborchardt]

I was about to send you the rest of the code on the page and I started thinking about the Session.Abandon. I remarked it and it works fine now. OK problem solved, but why wont this work if the session.abandon is done before I set the new session variable? I guess the session.abandon is not nessesary if I am going to specifically reset the session variable to a new value. What would the proper way be to clear a session if I had to without affecting other sessions on the page?

Thanks

strMEID = "691"
strLoc = "444"

Session.Abandon

'Set required variables
adCmdText = 1

'Start building the SQL string
sql24 = "UPDATE tblEquipment SET tblEquipment.Location = " & strLoc & " "
sql24 = sql24 & " WHERE tblEquipment.MEID = " & strMEID & " ;"


Set oConn24 = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection&quot'Open Connection
oConn24.Open strConnect

'Create the command object
Set oCmd24 = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command&quot

'Set the command object properties
Set oCmd24.ActiveConnection = oConn24
oCmd24.CommandText = sql24
oCmd24.CommandType = adCmdText

'Execute the command
oCmd24.Execute

Session("sv24MEID&quot = strMEID
Response.Write Session("sv24MEID&quot
'Response.Redirect "22AddEditMEPM.asp"

%>

 

[BDC2]

To clear a session without using session.abandon try:

session("sessionname&quot = ""

BDC.

 

[BDC2]

Or I think you can destriy the object by:

set session("sessionname&quot = nothing

BDC.

 

[Chopstik]

BDC2,

I actually was working with something similar to this today and was having a problem with the

set session("sessionname&quot = nothing

because it was expecting it to be an object (I kept getting an object expected error). I think you would have to set it = "" (like in your first post) in order for it to work. Hope that helps.

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