Interested in server-side session state ?

I've been trying to make my Flex based client to end up in the same server-side session upon each HttpService request.

Each request to a session-enabled ASP.NET page returns a cookie with the session id. By sending this ASP.NET_SessionId cookie back upon each request you can benefit from the session support built in ASP.NET.

There's one problem however: there doesn't seem to be a way to get the cookie information after an HttpService request... This is not going to stop us of course :)

The solution is easy:

- Create an ASP.NET page that returns the session id (in the 'normal' page output)
public partial class Login : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Clear();
Response.Write(Session.SessionID);
Response.End();
}
}

- Store the session id in your Flex application for re-use
...
var sessionCookie: String;
private function loginRequestHandler(event:ResultEvent):void
{ sessionCookie = event.result.toString(); }
...

- Re-use the cookie information with each new request:
...
userRequest.headers = "Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=" + sessionCookie;
userRequest.send();
...