Miriam wrote:
Serge Huber <shuber2 <at> jahia.com> writes:
Hi Miriam,
- you might also run into issues with the session. By linking directly
to the servlet, you will most probably loose the session (unless you are
using a special configuration with Tomcat 5.5). This is due to the fact
that before Tomcat 5.5 sessions are not shared across web application
contexts (Tomcat 5.5 introduces a new configuration option that allows
this, more info here :
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wholder/archive/2005/02/session_session.html
).
Hello again,
This is only to confirm that I've understood correctly what is happening
because after getting Tomcat 5.5.9 get working with Jahia, I have the same
problem:
If I click directly to the servlet, I still loose the session. Is it neccesary
to send the session to the servlet controller in some way?
I explain the steps:
Suppose that I'm logged into webmail and I want to see a mail that has an
image attachment:
1.- I click in the message I want to see and message.jsp page is called. This
jsp page (if an attachment is included) calls a method of class X, which
returns something like
<img border="0" src="/webmail/jwma?acton=message&todo=displaypart&number=0">
(because I haven't used encodeURL method, so servlet is directly called).
2.- jwma is the controller servlet and according to the parameters, its
displaypart method should be called, but before it an exception is thrown
because the servlet "thinks" that the user is not authentificated and it
redirects you to login again.
Is is neccesary to pass the session from class X to controller servlet in some
way? I supposed that thanks to new configuration of Tomcat 5.5, this was not
necessary.
This is indeed a tricky problem. What I would suggest is looking at what
is going on with the JSESSIONID cookie in the browser, and seeing if the
cookie has the correct path. Normally with the emptySessionPath setting,
the path should always be empty. If it is not it means that something is
probably wrong with the Tomcat configuration.
This is a problem that is not specific to Jahia, but to any portal
installation, such as Jetspeed 2, Pluto, etc. You might want to "google"
a bit to see if you can find more details about this there.
Regards,
Serge Huber.
