Relating Session Key to Session ID

[Adrian Forbes]

What is it you are trying to do, specifically?

 

[Tim Russell]

When a user visits our site we want to store the Session ID
(Session.SessionID) and then later parse through the web log files to find
any log entries that correspond to that Session ID. The problem is that the
Session ID returned by Session.SessionID is different from the entry
"ASPSESSIONIDxxxx=xxxxxxxxxxx" that is found in the log file. In addition
to the Session ID should we also just capture the
Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_COOKIE") entry, which would give me the
ASPSESSIONIDxxxxx=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx? I didn't know if there was a better way
to make the match between SessionID and the ASPSESSIONID session key.
Thanks.

Tim

 

[Adrian Forbes - MVP]

Those things are deliberately encoded to stop people
spoofing connections. What you could do is store the
session ID in your own cookie (daft, I know) and that
cookie will appear with each request in the logs in a
plain format.