Hey Marco,
Yeah, I now realize that Tomcat wouldn't know if the browser gets closed, and if one opens a new browser window then the same cookie is still there that can be sent to Tomcat to carry on the session (that's how it works right?).
But how come shutting down Tomcat and then restarting it doesn't work either? I took a look through Tomcat's server.xml and there's a section for persisting sections, but it's commented out. It begins:
<!-- PersistentManager: Uncomment the section below to test Persistent Sessions..... -->
You get the idea. As for invalidate(), I'm not looking for a programmatic solution right now to destroy sessions...I'm just trying to test different test cases with my browser, and so I want to start afresh for each test case. I noticed that one String I stored in the session persists there even when I restart Tomcat and that's the thing that's baffling me.
Sonny
From: "Marco Rolappe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: AW: how to destroy a session? Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:37:19 +0200
hi sonny,
to invalidate a session use the session's metho invalidate (). just closing the browser window won't do the trick (how should tomcat know?). AFAIR tomcat can serialize/persist sessions, but that depends on the configuration, I guess.
so just invalidate() your sessions and your problem should be gone.
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> Hi guys,
>
> How does a session get destroyed exactly? I set my sessions to timeout
> after 4 hours by configuring my web.xml file, but I thought that either
> closing the browser window or restarting Tomcat would do the trick.
>
> The shopping cart object in my session is destroyed, but there's a String
> that somehow survives even when I both close the browser and
> restart Tomcat.
>
> Btw, I'm running Tomcat 4.1.12 and Cocoon 2.0.4, in case it matters.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sonny
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