asp.net: session clear on response.redirect?
<p>Our site has a DropDownList for country and a DropDownList for language.
when a combination of those is clicked, we redirect the user to a country/language specific url, like en-us.mysite.com</p>

<p>the redirect happens in the ButtonClick in a user control (the UserControl is place in a MasterPage) but when the user gets redirected, the session variables are cleared when we check them in the global.asax ( in the request for the newdomain)</p>

<p>this happens both for true and false for the 'responseend' parameter in the Response.Redirect function.</p>

<p>is this by design?</p>

<p>(this is on localhost by the way, with the subdomains specified in the hosts file on my machine)</p>
