i am using the Asp.net session and would like to know the sessionId for a particular session when using IE 7. i can see the sessionID in firefox through cookeis (ASP.NET_SessionId) but can't find the seesionId in IE nethier is any cookies file availabel , i don't want to programatticaly print any sessionId to UI but would like to be able to extract sessionId from cookies like in firefox.

you can normally acess the browser session id through

var sessionid = Session.SessionID;

well the  reason for you cannot acess the session id is

may be your cookies are not enabled

you can enable your cookies by following the steps given in

http://help.mybluelight.com/support/browser/msie7-cookie-enable.html

(or check for tools->internet options->privacy tab ->settings to medium.)

also for some browsers the session id changes for every postback

for that you can set the sessionid in global.aspx page and acess accordingly in your page.

refer the article http://forums.iis.net/t/1161122.aspx

hope this helps

sanjeev

I would recommend you to use Fiddler. you can watch your network traffic in Fiddler. You can see the request and response headers and therefore cookies too that are part of request and response. You can learn a lot using this tool. I highly recommend it.

http://www.fiddler2.com/Fiddler2/

I agree with the previous post, that Fiddler can be very helpful.

ASP.NET normally sets session cookies with the HttpOnly attribute, so their values can't be accessed from JavaScript.  The only way to get to them without a debugger or special browser support as in Firefox or Chrome, is either on the server or by observing the HTTP conversation.