I was investigating a problem and happened to notice that our XSS/XSRF filters are triggering the creation of Session objects. I then noticed that they are creating a session when I hit an arbitrary url (I'm expecting a 404). This is plain wrong, IMO. This was on 2.1.4, but I would assume that 2.2 has the same behavior.

http-0.0.0.0-808...@10 daemon, priority=5, in group 'main', status: 'RUNNING' at org .apache .catalina.session.StandardManager.createSession(StandardManager.java: 284) at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.doGetSession(Request.java: 2,312) at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getSession(Request.java: 2,075) at org .apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getSession(RequestFacade.java: 833) at org .apache .geronimo.console.filter.XSRFHandler.isInvalidSession(XSRFHandler.java: 79) at org .apache .geronimo.console.filter.XSSXSRFFilter.doFilter(XSSXSRFFilter.java:109) at org .apache .catalina .core .ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java: 235) at org .apache .catalina .core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org .apache .catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java: 233) at org .apache .catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java: 191) at org .apache .geronimo .tomcat.valve.DefaultSubjectValve.invoke(DefaultSubjectValve.java:56) at org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.GeronimoStandardContext $SystemMethodValve.invoke(GeronimoStandardContext.java:406) at org .apache .geronimo .tomcat .valve.GeronimoBeforeAfterValve.invoke(GeronimoBeforeAfterValve.java:47) at org .apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java: 128) at org .apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java: 102) at org .apache .catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java: 568) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java: 286) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java: 845) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol $Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint $Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
          at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

--kevan

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