All:
Yesterday's posting of new releases of sslext was to fix a bug that had been reported a few days previously. Now we have a new release with a new feature that I am pretty excited about. A little background: Some older browsers (notable Netscape 4.x) would treat responses from a server with different protocols (http or https) specified as being part of two different sessions. e.g. a request to https://www.somedomain.com would belong to one session and http://www.somedomain.com would belong to another session. On some web containers (e.g. WebLogic), there was a "cookie-domain" setting that would allow you tell the browser to treat all responses from the same domain as a single session. However, other containers (e.g. Tomcat) did not have this feature. An idea was suggested on this list last week by my constant inspiration, Max Cooper, why not just force a URL rewrite when switching between protocols to force the session to be shared between the two protocols? Why not, indeed? So brilliant, yet so simple, the very definition of elegance. Yesterday, we tried out this idea, and sure enough it worked; we are sharing sessions on Netscape 4.7 using Tomcat where previously two sessions had been created. Eureka! This dual session problem has been such a pain for so long that I am disappointed we didn't think of this sooner. The new release dubbed "sslext - Struts1.1RC1 - 2" is the latest and greatest and includes this new feature. Find it at http://sslext.sourceforge.net. This new release also clears up a bug in module selection which could emerge if using anchors or a URL which had already been rewritten. Special thanks to Max for his suggestion and diagnostic assistance. Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
