If anyone is in the situation I was in, where your image controller actually needs read only access to the session, you can put the SessionState attribute on your controller [SessionState(SessionStateBehavior.ReadOnly)] See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.sessionstateattribute.aspx for more info. Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/4235006/372926
Found this over on the ASP.NET forums: using System; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.SessionState; using System.Diagnostics; // This code demonstrates how to make session state available in HttpModule, // regardless of requested resource. // author: Tomasz Jastrzebski public class MyHttpModule : IHttpModule { public void Init(HttpApplication application) { application.PostAcquireRequestState += new EventHandler(Application_PostAcquireRequestState); application.PostMapRequestHandler += … Read more
I did it this way: Basically the idea is both apps use native .net sessionState stored in sqlserver. By using the same machine key and making a small tweak to a stored procedure – both apps can share any session keys and/or forms authenication. Both apps would do something like this in their web.config: <sessionState … Read more
the session is getting shared across the two web apps If the session is shared across the two web applications, then yes this is the reason. The session is lock the response. To avoid this, on the huge upload information disable the session (only on the handler or on the page that make the upload). … Read more
First of all I say that MS asp.net have lock in the core of “asp.net processing a page” the session, somewhere in the “webengine4.dll” dll for asp.net 4 And I say that from the view point of MS asp.net act correct and lock the session this way because asp.net can not know what type of … Read more
The fundamental explanation is: No client session state on the server. By stateless it means that the server does not store any state about the client session on the server side. The client session is stored on the client. The server is stateless means that every server can service any client at any time, there … Read more