NullPointerException during HttpServletRequest.getSession

2003-09-30 Thread Dave Barkan
New to tomcat and Servlet code, and for that matter posting on this forum so please bear with me ;-) The symptom is a NullPointerException when I call getSession() on an HttpServletRequest object. The HttpServletRequest object had previously been saved as an attribute of the Session that

RE: NullPointerException during HttpServletRequest.getSession

2003-09-30 Thread Shapira, Yoav
Howdy, The symptom is a NullPointerException when I call getSession() on an HttpServletRequest object. The HttpServletRequest object had previously been saved as an attribute of the Session that it contained. This seems prone to problems. How can storing the request itself as a session

RE: NullPointerException during HttpServletRequest.getSession

2003-09-30 Thread Dave Barkan
OK thanks for responding to my first question; I looked around, some interesting discoveries within: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Shapira, Yoav wrote: Howdy, The symptom is a NullPointerException when I call getSession() on an HttpServletRequest object. The HttpServletRequest object had

Re: NullPointerException during HttpServletRequest.getSession

2003-09-30 Thread Bill Barker
The short answer is that you can't do this. It's true that Tomcat 3.2.x allowed you to get away with nasty hacks like this, but in subsequent Tomcat versions the Request object is only valid for the lifetime of the request. Dave Barkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]