I arrived on the client's floor and didn't even have a chance to walk into the office. "Stop everything - we need to solve this problem" Sounds serious. After deploying an existing ASP.Net application to a new server, a basic run-through test is typically done, making sure that everything is working. This time, however, nothing would work. The site would load, but as soon as the user did anything, it would return them to the launch page. We tried a different site and it worked fine. So it must be the configuration of IIS --- that was the general consensus. What was happening was that the session variables used in the application were simply not being registered. So if you issued a Session("Variable") = "Andrew", it didn't error out but it also didn't set the variable. But it wasn't. The kicker came when we installed Chrome and tried the site - it worked fine! Now, I'm a big fan of browsers but I don't think the solutio...
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