In other words you need to come up with your own mechanism for maintaining a "session" across web service invocations. This is fairly trivial and there are different approaches you can take.
If you called the CFC as a web service from within ColdFusion you'd have the same problem. However, you called it as a local object which meant it would maintain its state. The access attribute being set to "remote" only indicates that the CFC can be called as a web service not that it IS a web service only CFC. André -----Original Message----- From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2003 09:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Problem calling CFC from .NET On Thursday, Aug 7, 2003, at 17:12 US/Pacific, kevin ruggiero wrote: > Well, I'm not sure it warranted an "of course not", seeing as how it > did work fine when called from ColdFusion If you call if from CF, it's like a local function call. If you call it as a web service, there's no sense of session management - the calling client could be anything so there is no standard way to maintain a session. Sorry, I thought this was very obvious but I guess I'm making assumptions - no offense intended :( > That would make sense, I just was not aware that CF will not maintain > state on calls to web services. Well, it's more that the *client* isn't maintaining session so each time CF is called, it treats it as a new session (imagine turning off cookies and not being able to add tokens to the URL). > I was hoping that it could maintain state through some mechanism > similar to session management, which I don't believe is unreasonable > to fathom. Normally session management occurs through collaboration between the server and the client. It relies on the client following a protocol, either through cookies being passed back and forth or through URL data. Web Services can be called by a wide variety of clients that know nothing about cookies or URL parameters - so there is nothing for the server to hang on to... Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
