Hi Bill,

Thanks for clarifying.  

BTW Do you know if this policy in the browser, or if tomcat uses the
refer header to implement it on the server?

Thanks
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Barker
Sent: 09 April 2004 06:22
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Session behaviour across http/https boundary


"Martin Alley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
> I have a small web app that appears to illustrate the following
> behaviour.
> Session started in http is carried over to https, but session started
in
> https is *not* carried over to http!
>
> Why?

This is for security reasons (so that it isn't possible to steal
sensitive
information that was entered in via SSL).




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