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https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/AppName/(S(fuzxravpfxmtjtifjcd5dt0n))/Views/Reports/Page01.aspx
What are the characters between /AppName/ and /Views/ and how did they get into my url? The url is actually https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/AppName/Views/Reports/Page01.aspx but that random string is being inserted somewhere in the process before the page is viewed.
We recently switched from in-process state management to using SQL Server. Nothing else about the application changed and we can't go back to in-proc.
What are these characters and can we hide them?
Any thoughts? Thanks!
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Random folder on a website Hackers put random folders on websites to conceal pages with URLs that will look appealing in search results. Attackers sometimes store these URLs in folders with random numbers and letters. This is in the hope that less savvy website owners will assume that they are CMS core files.
They are actually not random strings. Normally they are numbers (usually row IDs) that are encoded in Base-36 encoding (obviously not always the case, but there are many that use it).
In a URL the number ie www2 refers to a host name used to identify a series of closely related websites within a domain. Such websites are 'mirrors 'used for server load balancing. In some cases, the specific hostname is obscured thus creating the appearance that the user is viewing the 'www' subdomain.
Ever wonder why these URL are so long? The answer is simple: tracking codes. Tracking codes are strings of text added to the end of a URL that let you track the source of a click.
That is your SessionState ID since you are apparently using Cookieless SessionState. You can adjust this in your web.config
Documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479314.aspx#cookieless_topic2
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