ASP.NET randomly losing session values

Question

I\'ve been searching for answers for quite some time on this as it continues to plague me. We store user login info and other data about the user\'s current activities in Sessi

Answer 1

I ran into this problem because our server was setup to run https. The sessions would not be retained if I ran under simple http. However, the sessions were retained when running on https. So we setup a URL rewrite rule to always send the application to https if they came in via http.

In addition sessions will not work locally or on the server unless you are running https (note the S on the end of https), if you have the following in your web.config file: