Question

I have a classic ASP site where I create a dictionary when the user logs in and then stores that dictionary in a session variable like so…

dim objDict
set objDict = server.createobject("scripting.dictionary")
' processing here to fill dictionary
set session("user") = objDict

That all works fine and dandy but when I navigate to another page and try to access a value from the stored dictionary like this…

session("user").item("id")

I get the following error…

error '80020009'

Can anyone tell me if I’m accessing the stored dictionary incorrectly? Is storing the dictionary object in a session variable a bad/wrong thing to do?

Thanks

Answer 1

Have you tried in your code doing something like the following when you want to access it?

Dim objDict
Set objDict = session("user") 
Response.Write objDict("id")

Try that and see if it works. I wouldn’t think this would be necessary but Classic ASP wasn’t exactly the most robust language. What you want to do should be workable, since the Session object simply stores objects.