ASP.NET Website HttpContext.Items is empty at random in HTTPHANDLER?

Session State, Forms Authentication and HttpContext. Items all are unrelated - so not sure why are you mixing them up. The forms authentication has its own cookie separate from session cookie and its life time can be different.

You can have session state irrespective of user has been authenticated or not. I am also not certain how you are storing UseProfile object in the session cookie - advise to put some code HttpContext. Items is property bag associated with the each HttpRequest note that this collection is available only for the request life time and there is no built-in mechanism to persist the collection.So its unlikely that you are going to get your UserProfile object in this collection unless you are putting it there for each request in some module or global.asax.

You need to explain what exactly you are doing perhaps with code samples!

Session State, Forms Authentication andHttpContext. Items all are unrelated - so not sure why are you mixing them up. The forms authentication has its own cookie separate from session cookie and its life time can be different.

You can have session state irrespective of user has been authenticated or not. I am also not certain how you are storing UseProfile object in the session cookie - advise to put some code. HttpContext.

Items is property bag associated with the each HttpRequest - note that this collection is available only for the request life time and there is no built-in mechanism to persist the collection. So its unlikely that you are going to get your UserProfile object in this collection unless you are putting it there for each request in some module or global.asax. You need to explain what exactly you are doing perhaps with code samples!

I am using IReadOnlySessionState coz I ran out of ideas and it came up during a google search, thought I mention it so people won't answer me with that. User Profile is extracted from the ticket in the session cookie in the global. Asax and assigned to the HttpContext.Items.

But at times it is still null in the http handler (on the deployed server). – Titan Jul 5 at 13:48 @Titan, can you post the code that puts data into and gets out of the session cookie? Its a bit unusual to use session cookie to store custom data - I would have rather chosen a separate cookie!

– VinayC Jul 6 at 4:20.

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