Asp.Net Sessions and Web Services

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james

Hey Guys,

I am working on a RIA that uses Flex backed by Asp.Net Web Services,
and I am not sure how to manage user sessions. I have used sessions
in Asp.Net before, but I haven't figured out how to plug my web
service calls into Asp.Net's mechanism, or what the plumbing would
look like to pass the session info back and forth from flex. I don't
feel like I have a good understanding of this (like security
implications, etc). Any comments or pointers in the right direction
are appreciated.

Thanks!
James
 
james said:
I am working on a RIA that uses Flex backed by Asp.Net Web Services,
and I am not sure how to manage user sessions. I have used sessions
in Asp.Net before, but I haven't figured out how to plug my web
service calls into Asp.Net's mechanism, or what the plumbing would
look like to pass the session info back and forth from flex. I don't
feel like I have a good understanding of this (like security
implications, etc). Any comments or pointers in the right direction
are appreciated.
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From the point of view of the asp.net web service, you have to enable
sessions (which are disabled by default for web services) in the WebMethod
attribute:

[ WebMethod(EnableSession=true) ]
public void MyMethod(...)
{
...
}

For this to work, the client of the web service needs to accept the
Session Cookie and send it back to the server on each request. If the client
were a .Net application, you would achieve this by means of a
CookieContainer object that you would add to your proxy class. However, I do
not know how to do an equivalent operation with Flex. You would get better
responses to this part in an Adobe forum, rather than a C# one.
 
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