Oops. Yes the HttpServletRequest.isRequestedSessionIdValid() method is for that purpose. I was looking at the HttpSession object itself. It's Friday.
Thanks.. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Milt Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 1:32 PM Subject: Re: Determine if HttpSession is invalid > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Mike Silvers wrote: > > > How do I determine if a HttpSession is invalid (not using the > > HttpSessionContext since that has been deprecated)? I am checking > > to see if the session is null or if the session ID is null and that > > does not work. > > > > What I am trying to accomplish is to check the HttpSession object to > > see if it is invalid. If it is invalid, I create a new HttpSession > > object with some initialization parameters and use the new > > HttpSession object. > > Isn't this what HttpServletRequest.getSession() is for? See: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/servletapi/javax/servlet/htt p/HttpServletRequest.html#getSession(boolean) > > Note the role the parameter plays, and the existence of the no > parameter version. > > Milt Epstein > Research Programmer > Systems and Technology Services (STS) > Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
