Thanks for the explanation Craig.
>> What I want to know is, given an input URL A, what must the format of A
be
>> in order to trigger the session encoding?
>The simple version of the rule is this: the only URLs that should be
encoded
>(assuming the servlet engine has decided it is necessary) are those that
>(after being expanded into an absolute URL) point back at THIS host. In
>addition, if you are in a version 2.1+ servlet engine environment, and the
>servlet context your servlet resides in is mapped to a URI prefix, then
only
>URLs that go back to this host, and resolve to the same prefix, should be
>encoded.
How about situations where there are multiple virtual hosts and only one
servlet engine. Or where you are doing redirecting in the web server as well
(eg mod_rewrite in Apache). Surely the above rule would restrict the
flexibility of the call?
Cheers,
Geoff
Geoff
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