On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, raju punith wrote:

> Thanks Milt for ur reply. We solved it (but waiting for any
> compalints) by attaching the time stamp to the URL so that the ISP
> proxy does not cache it b'cos the URL is diff for each request.

That seems like a pretty kludgey solution, frankly.  Did you not check
the archives for the code to set the headers such that caching is
disabled?  I think that's the more conventional and cleaner way to
deal with this.


> --- Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Prichard-Levy Austin wrote:
> >
> > > Problems of this type can occur when an instance
> > variable is
> > > declared in error as static. What happens then,
> > typically, is that
> > > the last user (modifier) of such a variable sets
> > it (via their
> > > instance) for everyone rather than just for
> > themselves, giving rise
> > > to very strange and unpredictable behaviour. I
> > came across an
> > > example of this recently in a servlet I had to
> > debug. I would
> > > suggest you carefully re-examine the declarations
> > and code of the
> > > servlet concerned. Hope this helps. Austin
> >
> > That is, a concurrency issue.  I was thinking along
> > those lines at
> > first as well, but then I noticed he said the right
> > output was shown
> > when the page was reloaded/refreshed.  I think that
> > makes caching the
> > more likely problem here, as others have mentioned.
> >
> > One can check the list archives for how to disable
> > caching for a page,
> > there are some headers you can set to do it.
> >
> >
> > > >  from:    raju punith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >  date:    Thu, 28 Nov 2002 23:57:17
> > > >  to:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >  subject: Re: hi
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > we have a web application (student enquiry)
> > using mvc
> > > > architecture (jsp, servlet & java beans).
> > > >
> > > > the problem.
> > > >
> > > > student "A" accessed his details using his
> > personal
> > > > computer from home & got his personal details
> > > > displayed properly but student "B" logged in
> > from his
> > > > home to access personal details  but got the
> > details
> > > > of student "A" but not of student "B" but when
> > student
> > > > "B" refreshed his screen or reload the page he
> > got his
> > > > details, both student's use the same ISP.
> > (student "B"
> > > > logged in after 3 hrs from student "A") student
> > "A"
> > > > never used student "B"'s pc before they are two
> > > > different pc's.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > what may be causing this error ?
> > > >
> > > > system details.
> > > > web server        : Apache 2.0
> > > > servlet container : Tomcat 4.0.4
> > > > Browser           : depends on student's pc.
> > > >
> > > > any help would be appreciated
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Raju

Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Integration and Software Engineering (ISE)
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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