Question

Is there a built-in asp.net way to conditionally serve pages, for example I want the following logic:

If there is a session data I generate
a page, if there is no session data I
serve the cached page.

I am only interested in knowing about a built-in asp.net mechanism for this. If it does not exist I am probably going to simply cache my page manually and decide whether to serve it or not for each request, based on the session data availability.

Answer 1

I don’t think there is built-in support (like varyByParam) for generating fresh output for users with Session Data.

As you suggest, I would recommend manually caching the pages. I would probably determine the user’s Session state in the PreRequestHandlerExecute event handler in the Global.asax and then maybe set:

HttpContext.Current.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);