Hi, Just did. It worked fine on Netscape - session remained. My settings in IE are to accept all cookies, and anything else for that matter, as not to be restrictive, but closing the window in IE is still killing my session! (I am running IE v 6.0.2800...Any further thoughts?
Thanks Paul. 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 schw�rer > > > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
