How can i identify just from the HttpContext Object that the HttpRequest coming to my application is from a cookieless application or cookieless browser?
View 2 RepliesWe have a Web Application (WebApplication A) which is in place and serving fine, we are working on another WebApplication which will use the Engine of Existing Web Application (WebApplication B) to some extent.
Problem: WebApplication A responds when a http request is made for a resource, like LatestPost.aspx, which passes it down to relevant class / Module like FrontManager.cs. I want to know how can we access that Module / class (FrontManager.cs) from WebApplication B, without requesting a Web Page ?
I have to provide a 508-compliant version of a page for the visually impaired and it isn't practical to just modify the page. Thus, I have created a new "reader-compatible" version of the page for the handicapped. The question is how I can tell if someone is using a reader rather than a standard browser? Is there a "header" or "useragent" value typically used by these non-standard browsers that I can look for?
View 1 RepliesI have created an ASP page to display records for auditor review and response. The page consists of two repeaters that display 5 rows from a database at a time. for each row displayed, a RadioButtonList, containing two buttons is attached. If the second button is selected, an input text box is displayed to allow auditor comments.
My situation is that I cannot find a way to identify which row is being selected? When I select the Button that should enable the text box, I'm receiving the following error:
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
I'm just starting out in ASP coding and would like to know what I'm not doing right?
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I want to ensure a user isn't editing the same form data in two different browser tabs or windows (of the same web browser instance). The intention is to stop the user from accidentally overwriting their own data as they continue through a very long form process. On the server, ongoing data input through the screens is collected into the Session.
Assume for any browser, all tabs and windows run in the same instance of it (i.e. not each in a separate process). Obviously the browser tabs and windows share the same cookies in this scenario so cookie modification seems out of the question for viable solutions. This is also the reason they are sharing the same session state.
Considering that the form is already created and this is one of the final touches, how can I use ASP.NET, hopefully easily, to oversee this "feature"?
We are programming a new web application framework (Second WAF). I was wondering if we should support cookieless sessions or not. Who use it and who needs it?
View 2 RepliesI am thinking about setting up a new domain to host static content on my website and have it cookieless just like Stackoverflow with their static domain. So before going ahead and buying the domain and setting it up I wanted to test it on my developement machine first under localhost (I have to mention that i am planning on having IIS running on my new domain for the static files). I therefore created a new application under IIS and disabled session state and forms authentication. When my main application needs resources like css, images and js , I use the path to the "static" application where they are hosted.
The problem is that when I look at the request and the response for the requested files, they still have the session_id cookie defined as well as the asp.net authentication cookie. Is it at all possible to accomplish what i am trying to do on a development machine or do i have to just go ahead and purchase the new domain which hopefully with make things right? I tried to read about cookieless domain but can't figure out what i might be missing.
I've got an application that needs to do some work on startup (before the first request is in). I've added the initialization code in the global.asax file (Application_start method) but this code doesn't seem to be hit after an iis reset is performed.Is there an event which is triggered in an asp.net application when an iis reset has occurred?
View 2 RepliesWhen and how do I use the Httpcontext.items dictionary object?
View 2 Repliessimple explanation like:- four blocks all connected to one server hosting a website using iis 5 c# i want if user from block a accesses the home page the page says block A user how are you, same goes for all blocks so how to identify from where the request is coming from in this simple scenerio
View 1 RepliesI have a server application that runs in a hosted environment but creates print jobs in the client's local network (behind NAT; the mechanics of this is not relevant).
In order to send the print job to the printer that is attached to the workstation, I need to identify the workstation. The users move around between workstations, so I can't permanently associate a user with a workstation/printer. The trivial solution is to require the user to identify the machine he is logging in from, for instance by selecting from a list, but that's an inconvenience and subject to user error.
Options I have eliminated:
Host header variables (nothing identifiable is sent) Cookies, in support of a user selection. This somewhat addresses the potential for user error, but not really. HTML5 DOM Storage - is not supported by the client's browser
Edit: I do have the option of puttnig this particular function (create a print job) into a thick client app. The app can then of course be configured and the problem goes away. But the user experience will suffer from having to switch between the browser and a Windows app.
the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 application run well on asp.net development server in visual studio 2008,but when deployed on IIS(6 or 7),I got a problem.the application used cookieless="true" configuration, the 'using(Html.BeginForm())' rendered a form action like<form action="/(S(kka5pk45bn5ecy45nq23x0uc))/Query/Query" method="post"> in asp.net development server,that's right.but on iis, the form action rendered like <form action="/testMVC/Query/Query" method="post">t losts the session information.
View 2 Repliesi have problem accessing HttpContext.Current.Application From global.asax its seems to be null every time i try to access it. How can i to this?
HttpContext.Current.Application.Lock();
HttpContext.Current.Application["Actions"] = "hello";
HttpContext.Current.Application.UnLock();
How to do it?I don't want to use this:
HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath
Is there a similar function that I can call without requiring a httpcontext?For example if a start a thread doing some stuff i cant use the httpcontext, but i still need to get the path of the app. And no i can't pass the context as an argument or read it from a shared var.
I wanted to understand the behavior of HttpContext.Current.Application during the load balancing. I have read that session can be stored in disk hence can be retrieved from different servers. Is this true for HttpContext.Current.Application also. Does the keydata stored in one machine is accessible in other different machine too?
View 1 RepliesI've found myself having a requirement to configure log4net based on a file relative to the physical location of the running ASP.NET web application. We like to start the logger as early as possible, so Application_Start seems a proper place. In IIS6, this works fine and has been running for ages, but now we moved to IIS7 and this won't work anymore:
string absolutePath = HttpContext.Current.Request.PhysicalApplicationPath;
because the HttpContext.Current is not available in many global.asax (Application, Session) events. This is old news, we all know it raises the now infamous Request is not available in this context error. We don't want to move back to Classic Mode.
Now, the question is simple: without using HttpContext, is it possible to find the physical location of the currently running web application instance?
In my CMS application, I'm trying to intercept all ASP.NET requests, inspect them and then assign custom HttpHandler if necessary or leave default handling when appropriate.I tried setting HttpContext.Current.Handler in Application_BeginRequest but it doesn't seem to work.There is MapRequestHandler event in HttpApplication but it is not available in the Global application class.
View 1 RepliesWe're migrating an application to use IIS7 integrated mode. In library code that is designed to work either within the context of an HTTP request or not, we commonly have code like this:
if (HttpContext.Current != null &&
HttpContext.Current.Request != null) {
// do something with HttpContext.Current.Request
} else {
// do equivalent thing without HttpContext..
}
But in IIS7 integrated mode the check for HttpContext.Current.Request throws an exception whenever this code is called from Application_Start.
protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
SomeLibrary.DoSomethingWithHttpContextCurrentDetection();
}
Results in:
System.Web.HttpException: Request is not available in this context
How can I detect whether the request is really available without wrapping these calls in an exception handler and taking action based on whether an exception is generated or not.
Looking at HttpContext in Reflector I see it has an internal bool HideRequestResponse field but it's internal so I can only get to it with reflection and that's fragile. Is there a more official/approved way to determine if it's ok to call HttpContext.Request?
This blog post about the subject says not to use HttpContext, but how, in generic library code, can you determine if it's ok to use HttpContext?
http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/11/10/Integrated-mode-Request-is-not-available-in-this-context-in-Application_5F00_Start.aspx
I'm using the work-around mentioned there which is to use Application_BeginRequest and an initialized field to only initialize once as part of BeginRequest, but that has to be done in every calling application whereas I'd prefer to make the library code more robust and handle this situation regardless of where it's called from.
I am trying to run the 15 minutes movies MVC application but I got the following error:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description:
An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source Error:
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Can anyone tell me the differnce between
System.web.httpcontext.current.application["tag"]
or
System.Configuration.Appsettings["tag"]
I have to implement broker and dealer socket connection like in share market i.e. it should connect at 9 AM and stop at 3.30 PM and repeat in next morning ...
so following is my requirement
1) i have to create application object once in day at 9 AM and destroyed at particular end day 3.30 PM.
My question is how to destroyed application object at given particular time ... i think this can be done in application_end handler in global.asax ... but my question is when no request is made at that time then what happened..
How can i find what are the URL's opened in the browser window and how can i get that page as a page object as described below.
Eg:
The opened url ='http:\localhostIPTrackingIndex.aspx'
We can fetch the page by giving the below code
page=(page)HttpContext.Current.CurrentHandler.
How can we do it for all the opened URL's because if we give the HttpContext.Current.CurrentHandler then it will display the page object within the site but i want the page object from other sites also.
I have been experimenting with code that will clear all of the cookies in an HttpContext.Response.Initially, I used this:
DateTime cookieExpires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1);
for (int i = 0; i < HttpContext.Request.Cookies.Count; i++)
{
HttpContext.Response.Cookies.Add(
new HttpCookie(HttpContext.Request.Cookies[i].Name, null) { Expires = cookieExpires });
}
this will error with an OutOfMemoryException because the for loop never exits - each time you add a cookie to the Response, it also gets added to the `Request.
i'm using an example in which i can fake the session.It's for use in a unittest of a mvc controller.In the test i create a controller and then i do this:
FakeHttpContext httpctx = new FakeHttpContext(null,null,null,null,mSessionItems );
ControllerContext ctx2 = new ControllerContext(httpctx,new RouteData(), target);
here mSessionItems is my session and target is my instance of a controller,and indeed, when i'm in a controller reading this.ControllerContext.HttpContext.Session, i have a session, great!but.... i also read the session outside the controller, and there i use HttpContext.Current.Session, and that is null (or actualy, the HttpContext.Current is null).
problem in requesting response from an aspx url in xmlhttprequest...
xmlhttp.open("GET","a.aspx",true);