To maintain a session, the server must send the client some piece of information that the client will then send back. With cookies, this is done by the server including a cookie in the Set-Cookie HTTP header. The client then sends that cookie back with each subsequent request in a Cookie header. The server identifies the session based on the cookie.
With URL rewriting, the server sends the client a URL with jsessionid in the query string. This is sort of built-in when the server is sending HTML to the client. For each URL sent as a link within the HTML, the servlet code first calls HttpServletResponse#encodeURL, which allows the servlet container to put the jsessionid in the query string. The links on the HTML page now have the jsessionid, so when the user navigates using one of them, the URL used will indicate to the server the session through the query string. With SOAP, the server is not typically sending the client the available URLs to call. You would need to do something like send the jsessionid as part of the SOAP response, have the client save it, and have the client build URLs for subsequent calls to have the jsessionid in the query string. On 7 Jul 2003 at 17:24, Praveen Peddi wrote: > Thanks Scott. > When I use setMaintainSession(false), and use URL rewriting, does session > management still work? > > I didn't quite understand the second. Why do I need to change my server side > code. We are using weblogic and I thought weblogic takes care of handling > URL Rewriting. > Could you explain it clearly of why do I need to change the server side > code? > > Praveen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Nichol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:15 PM > Subject: Re: turn off cookies and enable URLRewriting > > > > There is no need to disable cookie handling to use URL rewriting, > > although if you want to disable cookie handling, just do > > call.setMaintainSession(false). > > > > Of course, to use rewriting, you will need to code something in your > > code to communicate the rewritten URLs to the client, then have the > > client use those URLs. > > > > On 7 Jul 2003 at 14:59, Praveen Peddi wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know how to turn off cookies on the apache soap client so > that I can use URL Rewriting. > > > Basically our application is deployed in clustered environment and I am > trying to test soap services with URL Rewriting enabled. I have my soap > client in swing that uses Apache SOAP. Right now I am using session > management by calling call.setMaintainSession(true). > > > > > > Praveen > > > > > > Scott Nichol > > > > Do not reply directly to this e-mail address, > > as it is filtered to only receive e-mail from > > specific mailing lists. > > > > > > > > > > Scott Nichol Do not reply directly to this e-mail address, as it is filtered to only receive e-mail from specific mailing lists.
