On 24 Apr 2001, Chris Bailey wrote:
> I am using Tomcat 3.2.1, mod_jk (w/ ajp13), Linux, Apache 1.3.19. I
> have the home page of a site mapped to a servlet, by mapping index.html
> to a servlet in the web.xml file. The problem is, I sporadically get
> the session id showing up in the URL, and this results in a 404 Not
> Found.
>
> When it works "properly", I can go to the URL, "http://foo.bar.com"; for
> example. Apache determines this means I want the index.html file, and
> then sees this is mapped to a servlet via mod_jk, etc., and runs the
> servlet, all is fine. The browser displays either http://foo.bar.com,
> or sometimes http://foo.bar.com/index.html plus any parameters, etc.
>
> The problem case is where I see the browser shows the URL similar to
> http://foo.bar.com/;jsessionid=9946qv2xml1 plus any params. This hoses
> the browser, because it tries to request the web page of
> ";jsessionid...", and of course fails.
>
> Can someone explain what's going on, and how I might fix this?
That's URL Rewriting -- which is an alternative way (to cookies) to
how session ids are transmitted. I think the API calls that put that
on the URL are encodeURL and encodeRedirectURL. So perhaps you have
some stray, unintended calls to those methods somewhere in your code.
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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