Session vars in domain.com and www.domain.com

[minli98]

Hi,

I have set up my ssl as

https://mydomain.com.

However if the user starts from

http://www.mydomain.com,

and is transferred to the ssl page, the session vars cannot be read as they belong to the

http://www.mydomain.com.

Doesn't seem to be a problem in explorer, but certainly a problem in firefox (and maybe netscape).

Short of forcing users to use

http://mydomain.com

(i.e. if they type in

http://www.mydomain.com/abc.htm

they will be routed to mydomain.com/abc.htm), is there a better way so that the session vars from

http://www.mydomain.com

can be read by mydomain.com?

Many thanks.

Regards,
Min

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Instead of creating SESSION vars, create APPLICATION level vars. That might fix it.

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http://www.imajinarts.com

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[minli98]

Hi GUJUm0deL,

Unfortunately some of the vars are for shopping cart and transaction/user-specific info so I probably can't use application vars.

Min

 

[ksea]

it's bad SEO practice to use

http://domain

and

http://www.domain.

Force guests to one or the other.

Plus unless you have a wildcard SSL your SSL Cert. would normally be purchased as

https://domain

name or

https://www.domain

name, this would cause users to have to click ok to accept certs.

Here's an example - include this in your sites application file.

<!--- 301 REDIRECTION TO THE CORRECT DOMAIN NAME -

http://www.yourdomain.com

--->
<cfif NOT #CGI.SERVER_NAME# IS "

http://www.yourdomain.com">

<CFHEADER STATUSCODE="301" STATUSTEXT="Moved permanently">
<CFIF Right(CGI.SCRIPT_NAME,11) IS "default.cfm">
<CFSET strNewURL="

http://www.yourdomain.com#ReplaceNoCase(CGI.SCRIPT_NAME,"default.cfm","")#">

<CFELSE>
<CFSET strNewURL="

http://www.yourdomain.com#CGI.SCRIPT_NAME#">

</CFIF>
<CFIF #CGI.QUERY_STRING# NEQ "">
<CFSET strNewURL="#strNewURL#?#CGI.QUERY_STRING#">
</CFIF>
<CFHEADER NAME="Location" VALUE="#strNewURL#">
</cfif>

 

[minli98]

Thanks ksea. I did not know that search engines actually prefer just one or the other. I have followed your 301 redirection. Thanks for the advice.

Min