I've tried it, and it works. Thanks a lot Matt. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Matt Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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