How to access session from generic handler

Question

In ashx: I'm putting data in list of entities & assinging it to session.

context.Session["objList"] = myEntityCollection;

I want to get this Session through response; in code behind. How it is achieved?

context.Response.ContentType = ???
.....
context.Response.Write(context.Session["objList"]);

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 18 '12 at 14:52

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Hi if I understand you correctly. To access session data in an ashx file you need to implement the interface IRequiresSessionState

public class ExampleHttpHandler : IHttpHandler, IRequiresSessionState
{
    public bool IsReusable
    {
        get
        {
            return false;
        }
    } 

    public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
    {    
        context.Session["test"] = "test";
        context.Response.Write(context.Session["test"]);
    }
}

answered Oct 18 '12 at 14:52

Alex Cruddace

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Thanks for reply. But I'm already using that. The problem was that instead of getting object I was getting name of the object in code behind. – mike44 Oct 18 '12 at 15:31

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '12 at 11:24

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Serialize object to JSON, return serialized string with response and use application/json ContentType

answered Oct 18 '12 at 11:24

Yuriy Rozhovetskiy

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How to access session from generic handler

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