RE: session tracking enforcement

2004-10-19 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, Is there any way to enforce a session cookie (JSESSIONID)to be send to the client (browser) from servlet. No, because the Servlet Spec says Servlet Container must work even on clients that don't support cookies (or have cookies turned off, which is becoming a more and more common use-case).

Re: session tracking enforcement

2004-10-19 Thread David Wall
Is there any way to enforce a session cookie (JSESSIONID)to be send to the client (browser) from servlet. No, because the Servlet Spec says Servlet Container must work even on clients that don't support cookies (or have cookies turned off, which is becoming a more and more common use-case).

RE: session tracking enforcement

2004-10-19 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Hi, Session cookies (those that don't persist) are becoming quite common actually because even small devices are able to keep that bit of session state quite easily. Ahh yes, small devices. Good point. I based my earlier assertion on research I read recently showing a (and this is a good

RE: session tracking enforcement

2004-10-19 Thread Mark
Is it true, that new sessionId will be resend if a new session get created? --- Shapira, Yoav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Session cookies (those that don't persist) are becoming quite common actually because even small devices are able to keep that bit of session state quite easily.

Re: session tracking enforcement

2004-10-19 Thread David Wall
But that's details, the main point I made still holds, and that's that the Servlet Spec mandates Tomcat's behavior in this area. Absolutely, Yoav! I certainly didn't mean to imply anything negative about your response, only that the original inquiry could be handled/checked by his application

Re: session tracking enforcement

2004-10-19 Thread Mark
In my case it looks like I do have encode all URLs: firewall problem with stripping out sessionId left me with no choice ;) Is it right way of doing it? Thanks a lot. Mark. --- David Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's details, the main point I made still holds, and that's that the

Re: session tracking enforcement

2004-10-19 Thread David Wall
In my case it looks like I do have encode all URLs: firewall problem with stripping out sessionId left me with no choice ;) Is it right way of doing it? ACK! There's a firewall that's stripping out session ids from URLs but will let cookies through? There's a security no-brainer in charge...