Upgrading from CF 5 to CF8 and undefined session

[jjdonate]

Hi everybody,

First sorry for my poor english (i'm french... nobody's perfect ).

My problem is that an old application, running on CF5 without problem, doesn't work on a new (OS Win 2003 sp2, IIS 6, CF8) machine. I precise that all cookies are accepted by the browser (IE6 but the same on FF3.6).

The problem is that session management seems not to work.

In the login folder
********************************************************
Application.cfm

<CFAPPLICATION NAME="xxxxxxx" SESSIONMANAGEMENT="yes">
<CFSET Variables.DSN="yyyyyyyyy">

Index.cfm

a form with UserName and PW

ActionIndex.cfm

UserName and PW verification and if ok

<CFLOCK TIMEOUT="10" TYPE="EXCLUSIVE" SCOPE="SESSION"> 
     <CFSET Session.LoggedIn = "1"> 
     and other session variables affectation...
</CFLOCK>
then
<cflocation url="/user foldername/file name.htm">

In user foldername
********************************************************

Application.cfm

<cfapplication name="xxxxxxx" sessionmanagement="yes">
<CFSET Variables.DSN="yyyyyyyyy">
<CFLOCK TIMEOUT="10" TYPE="READONLY" SCOPE="SESSION">
<CFIF NOT IsDefined("session.LoggedIn")>
 <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
 {window.close();}
 </script>
 <CF_LOCATION URL="/appfolder/Login/index.cfm">
</CFIF> 
</CFLOCK>

file name.htm

A frameset with 3 cfm files using the session variables etc...

When i log with verified UserName and PW the second Application.cfm throw me back to index.cfm as if session.LoggedIn where undefined.

If a delete the loggedIn verification the 3 cfm files in file_name.htm frameset stop at the first reference of a session var used.

I saw in the CF8 documentation

Note:
If you set session variables on a CFML template that uses the cflocation tag, ColdFusion might not set the
variables. For more information, see TechNote 22712 at [URL unfurl="true"]http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/181/tn_18171.html[/url]

It was exactly what hapened to me. I tried every workarounds they suggest without any success !! (javascript redirection, CF_Location, CFHeader, meta refresh...)

I have an other application built in the same model that seems to work with session variable without problem.

What can I do ?? stay in CF5 ?

Thanks in advance for any suggestion.

Best regards.

 

[Bammy217]

jjdonate,

do you need the second application.cfm?

Logically for the session to remain the same both <cfapplication ...> tags are identical (especially the name attribute!), and as the "/user folder/" is under the original folder the application.cfm it should work for all sub-folders!

if removing the application.cfm in the "/user folder/" is not an option you can always try to force the browser to complete it's request by trying something like this:

	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
		function doWrite() {
			document.write('<scr'+'ipt> document.location = \'./user%20folder/index.htm\';</scr'+'ipt>');
		}
		doWrite();
	</script>

When we migrated from CF5 to CF8 we had similar issues with embedded files before a redirection, but our embedded file had only one block of <cfscript>...</cfscript> and this code resolved the issue, but i'm not 100% sure it is required.

Personally if I was you I'd just remove all application.cfm files and write one application.cfc
you can use the "onRequestStart" function to check for the session, and perform a re-direct from there (if the user is not already on the login script of course).

B.

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