> We have a .Net app (DotNetNuke) running on one machine and a > CF app on another. We would like to share login > info(sessions) across the servers. I've been thinking a web > service would work but I'm not really sure of where to start. > Has anyone shared sessions between a .Net app and a CF one? > If so could you give a brief overview of how it works?
Well, you can't actually share sessions. However, you could have each application associate login information with a single browser. For example, let's say that the user logs into your CF application first. When they visit the .NET application, it could notice that a domain cookie has already been set by the CF application, then query the CF application via HTTP to retrieve data from that user's session. The cookie itself could be sent with this request. The CF application could have a page specifically designed to be used for this purpose - presumably, it would only accept requests from the .NET application machine, and would write the appropriate session data in the HTTP response. You could also store common login data used by both applications within a database, instead of using the Session scope. That would remove the necessity to have one application query the other. Finally, your best bet might be to have both applications authenticate against a single-sign-on infrastructure, like Siteminder, if you have something like that in place. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248347 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
