ServerVariables & Refresh

[furtivevole]

Hello

I am trying to capture a number of ServerVariables. Certain of these (such as USER_AGENT, HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE, REMOTE_ADDR) are always populated. But LOGON_USER and HTTP_REFERER are not populated consistently (ie often left blank).

However if I hit Refresh two or three times (not necessarily just once), I almost always then get results.

Other users on the intranet have had a similar experience.

Why should there be different behaviour from the different ServerVariables? What does Refresh do in this situation?

I have a hunch about the cause, but I'd appreciate a second opinion before approaching the IS dept. (This is not their forte!)

Linnet

 

[hithere]

I'll bet you're running into to this when there are 2 or more sessions of IE open. We've run into something very similar with cookies. If a 2nd session is opened by using the icon instead of file/new/window, it appears session variables and cookies overwrite themselves or something. Does this match your case? I've posted for a work around in other forums and had no responses. Any one?
mb

 

[furtivevole]

Hi Hithere

I'm pretty certain this has happened for me with just one session running. I'll check with colleagues however. Thanks for the good news!!!

Linnet