Hello everyone, first time posting to this list, so please don't be too hard with me ;-)
We have a problem with the session stickyness of mod_jk in the context of image requests. First of all, here is our setup: 3 servers running Tomcat 5.5.x with AJP connector 2 servers running Apache webserver 2.2.x with mod_jk 1.2.28 The webservers are configured independently to balance between all three appservers. Sessions are _not_ synchronized between the appservers. We serve mobile content, so most of the incoming requests are from mobile devices. The problem is that our webapp renders images on-the-fly for incoming requests to content pages. That means, that image requests need use the same session as the request to the content page. They have to hit the same appserver because the images are just not present on the other appservers. We configured our webapp to use cookies or - if cookies are not available - do url rewriting. This seems to work fine for say 90% of our requests. But it seems like some devices just don't send the session ID cookie with image requests. They send the cookie with the request to the content page but not with the following image requests. Could this be a configuration problem on our side? Or is this something some devices do wrong? If so, has anyone an idea how to circumvent this issue? Greetings from Germany, Timo Kockert
