You're absolutely right. Thanks a lot. The problem was that I disabled cookies
- but I did not restart the browser (Netscape 4.75) - and I just recconnected to
tomcat (and the cookies were still enabled).
With the cookies disabled - everything works fine.
Thanks again,
Calin
William Kaufman wrote:
> >From the JSDK 2.2 spec
> (
> http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/2.2/javadoc/javax/servlet/http/HttpServ
> letResponse.html#encodeURL(java.lang.String) ):
>
> Encodes the specified URL by including the session ID in it, or, if encoding
> is not needed, returns the URL unchanged. The implementation of this method
> includes the logic to determine whether the session ID needs to be encoded
> in the URL. For example, if the browser supports cookies, or session
> tracking is turned off, URL encoding is unnecessary.
>
> For robust session tracking, all URLs emitted by a servlet should be run
> through this method. Otherwise, URL rewriting cannot be used with browsers
> which do not support cookies.
>
> -- Bill K.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Calin Duma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:35 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: tomcat 3.2.1 and URL rewriting
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an issue with URL rewriting - and I could not find an answer in
> > the mailing list archive.
> >
> > Basically when I print out the string returned by a
> > response.encodeUrl(..) - it is identical to the original string. I do
> > have an http session active.
> >
> > Any ideeas ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Calin
> >
