Hello !

We also were having issues with what seemed to be generation of duplicate 
sessionIDs. But we were running two JBoss AS/JBossWeb servers in a 
non-clustered environment.

As a test I logged all generated sessionIDs and found that, over time, of the 
accumulated 5300 sessionIDs generated on the two servers, 153 of them were 
created on both servers (duplicates). None were duplicates within the same 
server though.

So from what I can gather, that is a probable cause for some issues we were 
having.

A temprorary fix was to make tomcat generate longer sessionId on one of the 
servers in order to be truly unique.

(sat the sessionIdLength attribute in deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/context.xml)

I think in order to be even more secure, we need to write some code that 
prevent anyone from "faking" a sessionID to "steal" another users session.

Found some hints here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_fixation


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