Here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934903 you can read about this bug introduced by SP2 (Session_OnEnd in global.asa not being read).

Is there anybody that obtained the hotfx from MS, and wants to generously share it with me?
I spent 20 mins at the phone todaty,giving out my personal info to an operator I could barely understand, to be told that I neded to tell them if it was US or EU software that I was using. I explained I did not know because it comes from my Technet subscription, produced by my company (US) while I am in Italy (EU), and so she wanted me to check on the OS. I had no access to the server in that very moment, so I gave up.

And, I thought maybe the empeg BBS would prove more helpful than any helpdesk, as usual...

However, why on earth MS deced not to make this hotfix available for download, just like the thousand others out there?

Exactly, which is why the KB article itself says:

"This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Microsoft Windows Server 2003 service pack that contains this hotfix."

I tried again today, and they were nice, quick, and emailed the hotfix to me in less than 30 mins. And, it works perfectly.

So, I guess I was just unlucky the first time, or got the wrong opertor.


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Exactly, which is why the KB article itself says:

"This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Microsoft Windows Server 2003 service pack that contains this hotfix."

I have to say I find hat statement a bit confusing, which is why I did not rely on it. Next service pack will probably be released in one year from now. Maybe they meant "next downloadable/tested hotfix".

Yes, I see. I think that makes sense mostly with minor bugs affectic few customers.
In this case I think they will have to release it as a Hotfix, since I am guessing quite a few websites are still using classic ASP and global.asa.

Yes, but lots of them that do won't be using ASP session handling and even the ones that do will only be significantly affected if they actually do something in the session end event.

Even most of the ones that do use the session end event can probably work around the issue.