Nicholas Whitehead wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a reliable method for determining a
> servlet engine's session cookie name ? I am writing
> what needs to a be a portable servlet and I need to
> determine the session cookie name which appears to
> vary according to vendor. My current servlet runner
> taht I use to debug uses "SESSION-ID" where as JRun
> uses "jrunsessionid".
>
Prior to version 2.2 of the servlet API, the cookie name was engine-specific.
Some engines allowed you to configure it, others did not.
Starting with version 2.2, the name of the cookie is defined in the API
specification to be "JSESSIONID".
>
> I am starting to feel that the API needs two new
> methods:
>
> String getSessionCookieName()
> void setSessionCookieName(String cookieName)
>
> Any ideas ?
>
No new methods are required.
>
> Nicholas
>
Craig McClanahan
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