Have you tried running this in Mozilla/Netscape? That would rule-out/in it being a browser issue. Something to do with cookies, perhaps?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 4:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: window close session invalidate > > Hi, > This problem bought to the user list after it became evident it was > a configuration issue and not a development one. > Can anyone tell me why my session cookie is being invalidated when I > close a popup window (the original remains open), either by > window.close(); (Javascript) or the Windows close Ap. icon on the top > right corner? Note: running the app. (and closing the popup) from the same > instance of Tomcat, but from a different terminal does NOT do this! This > would imply it is an IE config issue? Does anyone have any experience of > this please? > > Thanks > > Paul. > > where my session was being invalidated > OK, Thanks for that. > An interesting note however..after some testing, the session is not > killed when run from another terminal i.e running the same instance of TC > (same server) but from different terminals. That would suggest it is an IE > configuration issue (at much annoyance to certain developers). I will at > this stage bring this up on the user list! > > Thanks > > Paul. > > i had the same problem with internet explorer. mozilla seems to work > properly. > i tracked the problem down and found out that internet explorer looses > the session cookie when closing the popup browser window. > > then i added > <DefaultContext cookies="false" /> > to my virtualhost definition in server.xml to disable the session-cookie > mechanism. > after that everything worked fine for me. > remember to encode all urls with response.encodeURL(). > > jochen schwörer > > > Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 6:00:57 AM, you wrote: > > PW> Dear all, > PW> May someone enlighten me on why my session is being > invalidated > PW> when I close a browser window? I am doing this in one of two ways - > the > PW> application close icon on the top right of the window, or a simple: > > PW> <a href="javascript:window.close();">CLOSE</a> > > PW> Does anyone have any experience of this? The session is being killed > and > PW> thus so is my app. I will submit this query to the user list, but > PW> thought it appropriate for this list as I am getting the same result > PW> from multiple instances of TC on different servers, implying it is not > a > PW> configuration issue as first suspected. > > PW> Thanks > > PW> Paul. > > PW> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > PW> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PW> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
