You could put the following page directive on your login? .jsp page:

<%@ page session="false" %>

David Stevenson

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:35, Frank W. Zammetti wrote:
> Yes, the session is created automagically when a servlet-served resource 
> is accessed (meaning things other than HTML, images, things like that). 
>   JSPs and servlets in other words.  I seem to remember a config switch 
> to turn this off, but that's how it generally works, and this is usually 
> how other app servers work too AFAIK.
> 
> There are ways to deal with the, the way I generally do it is simply to 
> check for some known object in session.  This object is only placed in 
> session from my logon process.  So, if it's not there at any other time, 
> the user hasn't been validated.  Cue whatever error/redirection logic 
> you want at that point.  I think this is a fairly typical approach.
> 
> This confused the hell out of me for a while too... It's a bit 
> counterintuitive, especially when there exists API functionality to 
> create a session or use an existing one.  The logic there I suppose is 
> that you may want to discard the automatically-created session in favor 
> of your own during a logon process for instance, but I'm not sure I see 
> the reason for doing that.
> 
> In any case, you aren't seeing anything unusual here, it's simply 
> something you have to deal with one way or another (or find out the 
> config switch to turn it off, if my memory is serving me correctly in 
> saying it exists at all).


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