shopping cart

[MattB]

Is there a commonly agreed upon "best" way to do a shopping cart? I've
done on in the past that was one big session variable in xml. Each time they
would display it, I'd just iterate through the records for display. That
worked pretty well, but it was done on a different platform. Is this still a
good route to go with asp.net? Thanks!

 

[Ron Vecchi]

I ran into problems before with using session for keeping track of shopping
cart.

I'm not quite sure of the shared hosts server configuration but what was
happening was that when I accessed the secured server (https://) for the
checkoput process session state was being lost. They must have had no
global session storage scheme. But I ended up maintaining my shopping cart
sessions in a database.