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I need to open a second browser window or tab, but it must have a different session ID.
Opening the new browser window from an ASP.NET page is easy, but then it shares the same cookie and thus session ID with the original.
How can I do this?
This is a browser limitation – browsers instances share cookie data (including session cookie) when they are running, so this is not possible with your standard browser.
If you have an option of running different browsers (IE and Firefox, for instance) they do not share cookies and will have different sessions.
Edit:
If you have control over IIS host headers and DNS in your environment, you may be able to use many different domain names – one per session.
The browser will treat each domain name as a different server and different cookies (and therefore sessions) will be created.