session.sessionid understanding 1

[richey1]

Hi

I've inherited a jobs page, wherby the user can click on a job and apply.........

it passes this url

<a href=""name.asp?page=278&amp;ID=" & rstJob("JobNumber") & "&amp;vt=2&amp;sID=" & sID & """>" & rstJob("JobTitle") & "</a>

where sID is

sID = right(session.sessionID, 5) & right(tmpTime, 4)

some applications come through with no sessionid and therfore fail.

can someone let me know why this is (I'm guessing not accepting cookies might be one ?) although i tried this using don't allow cookies (it prompting me and each time I said block cookie) but my session id still got saved

thanks
cath

 

[Chopstik]

You might try reviewing this and seeing if any of those listed apply to you:

http://aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2157

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[ChrisHirst]

probably SE crawlers and the like. Check the logs to find out and make sure that it fails gracefully if there is no session ID passed.

Chris.

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[richey1]

thanks everyone

I've had a look at the url
its really strange - I've tried various things such as turning off cookies etc but it still always works for me !