Why does ColdFusion not recognize my session variable when I remotely call a CFC?
Example:
I have a CFC that I call using:
http://www.mywebsite.com/CFC/myfunc.cfc?method=dosomething;arg1=foo;arg2=foo2
If I put the following...
<cfdump var="#session#" abort>
...on the very first line of myfunc.cfc, I see a properly displayed cfdump of all of my session variables. However, if I do something simple like:
<cfset myvar = session.datasrc>
I get a 500 error. Element DATASRC is undefined in SESSION.
session.datasrc appears in the cfdump and if I don't access it remotely (like with a <cfinvoke>) it works fine. Am I missing a some property, or a setting in CFIDE? Something somewhere isn't allowing for remote calls to CFC's to access session variables. Thanks.
Calls to a "remote" cfc do maintain session if called through a browser.
<cffunction access="remote" returntype="any" output="No" hint="this hint" name="test">
<cfargument required="false" name="username" type="string" default=""/>
<cfset session.username="#arguments.username#">
<cfreturn session>
</cffunction>
Call the cfc with http://localhost:8500/CFCs/your.cfc?method=test and you will see the session id will remain constant. Call it as http://localhost:8500/CFCs/your.cfc?method=test&username=bob and you will set the session variable, strip off the argument from the url and the session variable is persisted.
If you are calling the remote cfc without using a browser, you will need to "manually" pass in the sessionid as discussed here