Application pools are a function of IIS. They allow websites to run under separate processes so that a problem in one web application does not affect another. When I say restart the application pool, it's like restarting the web server for only website on the web server.

Results of diagnostic code (1st Form Submit):

print $cgi->Dump;
    form
        login
    username
    
    password
    
    environment
        env1
    submit
        Submit

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print $cgi->escapeHTML( Data::Dumper::Dumper( $cgi , $session ) );
    $VAR1 = bless( { '.parameters' => [ 'form', 'username', 'password'
+, 'environment', 'submit' ], 'use_tempfile' => 1, '.charset' => 'ISO-
+8859-1', '.fieldnames' => {}, 'param' => { 'environment' => [ 'env1' 
+], 'password' => [ '' ], 'submit' => [ 'Submit' ], 'form' => [ 'login
+' ], 'username' => [ '' ] }, 'escape' => 1 }, 'CGI' );

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Results of diagnostic code (2nd Form Submit):

print $cgi->Dump;

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print $cgi->escapeHTML( Data::Dumper::Dumper( $cgi , $session ) );
    $VAR1 = bless( { '.parameters' => [], 'use_tempfile' => 1, '.chars
+et' => 'ISO-8859-1', '.fieldnames' => {}, 'param' => {}, 'escape' => 
+1 }, 'CGI' );

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In reply to Re^2: Form Data inaccessible after establishing session by SitrucHtims
in thread Form Data inaccessible after establishing session by SitrucHtims

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