Create Classic ASP session variables using Curl with PHP - php

Question

I have created a simple classic ASP script that will take a username and password from a post and create session variables. This script works fine if i use a standard html form and redirect to this page. I have a php site and I want to log users into both websites when they log into the php site. To do this i wanted to add a curl request to the login script in php. This would send the password and username over to the script and create the session variables. The response i get from the curl request would suggest that it worked, but it doesnt seem to be saving the session.
Here is the curl request.
$postinfo = "username=".$username."&password=".$password;
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postinfo);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
var_dump($result);
I dont want to paste the full asp script, but this is roughly how it works. The session persists when i login using a html form so i know its working correctly. When the curl request is finished executing it seems that the session variables are populated, but when i visit another page the session does not exist.
'do some stuff with the db to check if the credentials work.
if success = true then
Session("userid") = userid
Session("login") = "good"
Response.Write("Login successful - " & Session("userid"))
else
Response.Write("Login Failed")
end if
When i run the curl request the response is "Login successful - 123". This means not only is the login working, but its also setting the session value. The problem is that when i try to visit the asp site it does not detect any session data.
I have verified that the all links are pointing to https://www.website.com. Both websites are under the same domain name, just 2 different subdirectories/languages. They are both running on the same server.