Bustanil Arifin wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using Java on the server side of my application connected by > BlazeDS. For authentication purpose, I use Java servlet that stores > the username and password to the http session and returns the > session's ID. > For example, when a user hits this url - > http://localhost:8080/myapp/login?username=user&password=secret, the > servlet stores the request parameter to the http session and return > the session's ID value e.g 123. > > Next thing I want to do is to tell my Flex application to use the > existing session with ID 123, instead of creating a new one. In Java > web app I can simply do this using url rewrite by appending > jsessionid=123 to the request url. Is there anyway we can do this in > Flex? > > Thanks in advance. > > Experimentally, I've seen that if you put the session id into a cookie it will be sent along with any server calls you make from Flex. I'm not sure if this is a documented feature, though, or just a side-effect of the way the Flash plug in interacts with the browser. If you wanted to be safe, you could pass the session id in as a flash var and rewrite the destination URL at runtime using something like http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&postId=9703&productId=2.
Hope it helps, -Matt
