Session_Start does not shoot

Question

We have an ASP.NET 2.0 website with some old classic ASP pages on it. There is a page login.asp and home.aspx. The Login.asp page is redirected to home.aspx for authenticated and authorized users.

We want to count the number of users visiting the site. If the user reaches a certain value, we show some pop-up window with some information. We save application variables in global.asax file. Please fill in the following code cut for global.asax

Protected Overloads Sub Application_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Application("Count") = 0 End Sub Protected Overloads Sub Session_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Application("Count") = CInt(Application("Count"))+ 1 End Sub 

I refer to the Application (“Graph”) by the PageLoad method for Home.aspx.

When I open a browser with the URL http://localhost/login.asp and successfully log in, the counter never increments. If I go to http://localhost/home.aspx , the score increases. It looks like when login.asp redirects to home.aspx, it does not call session_start in global.asax.

I am not very familiar with Classic asp. End users always come from login.asp.

What is the best way to access the correct added application variable from global.asax file?

Answer 1

Classic ASP pages are not processed by the ASP.Net engine. This means that it is correct that Global.asax events are never triggered for .asp URLs.