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IIS 6, values not persisting on postback, viewstate is truncated. Need some help!

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User89600202 posted
We have a large number of Win2k3 boxes running IIS 6. They all run identical codebases. On only two of the machines, we have a simple scenario where when a form posts back to itself the viewstate is truncated, or it appears to be. All of these boxes are in a farm configuration.
Things I've checked on these machines when compared to other "working" machines:
IIS setup appears to be the same - gone through page-by page and compared everything.
app-level web.config files are identical
machine-level web.config files are identical
machine.config files are identical
codebase is identical.
I wrote a simple page to test this:
viewstate_test.aspx:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" trace="true" CodeBehind="viewstate_test.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebApplication1.viewstate_test" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head runat="server"> <title>Untitled Page</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server">testvalue</asp:TextBox> <br /> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server"></asp:TextBox><br /> <asp:CheckBox ID="CheckBox1" runat="server" Checked="True" Text="CB1" /><br /> <asp:CheckBox ID="CheckBox2" runat="server" Text="CB2" /><br /> <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" OnClick="Button1_Click" /> <br /> <br /> <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="ViewState Keys Count= "></asp:Label> <asp:Label ID="lblViewState" runat="server"></asp:Label></div> </form> </body> </html>
viewstate_test.aspx.cs:using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Collections; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; namespace WebApplication1 { public partial class viewstate_test : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (IsPostBack) { lblViewState.Text = ViewState.Count.ToString(); } } } }
Viewstate on the "good" machine is:
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Viewstate on the "bad" machine is:
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I'm at a bit of a loss on this one. Anyone have any ideas?
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
namespace WebApplication1
{
public partial class viewstate_test : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (IsPostBack)
{
lblViewState.Text = ViewState.Count.ToString();
}
}
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
}
}using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Collections; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; namespace WebApplication1 { public partial class viewstate_test : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (IsPostBack) { lblViewState.Text = ViewState.Count.ToString(); } } } }
Thursday, August 20, 2009 6:14 PM
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User-1659704165 posted
Hi,
http://forums.asp.net/p/1115906/1735191.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1200814/proxy-server-truncating-view-state
OR
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832183
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831150Friday, August 21, 2009 1:13 AM -
User89600202 posted
I've read most of these. There is no proxy server, so I know that is not the issue. Additionally, there are a number of machines and this only affects two, so I know its not the firewall.
I don't get any errors that the viewstate has been corrupted or tampered with, so it has to be a server-side issue, or am I missing something?
Monday, August 24, 2009 9:26 AM