Good question, Joerg. I was told by 1 or 2 other people on this list that the EncodeURLTransformer won't rewrite the links with the session ID if cookies are enabled. Thus, they said, I could use <map:transform type="encodeURL"/> at the end of all of my pipelines with impunity. It will work when it needs to work, and do nothing when cookies are enabled.
So I tried it, and now I notice links are being rewritten even with cookies enabled, both for Mozilla Firebird and for IE (IE is the most important for us by far).
Anyhow, 2 other reasons I'd prefer URL/link rewriting not to occur when cookies are enabled:
1.) It takes up precious time to parse a document and rewrite links.
2.) If someone closes the browser, the session is gone, whereas a cookie still remains even after closing the browser and can be used to re-establish the same session, provided the session is still valid on the server.
I might easily have some misunderstandings here, which is why I've tried to explain my current understanding. Please point out any points on which I have erred.
Sonny
From: Joerg Heinicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I wonder why you don't abstain from cookies completely? If you use URL encoding for some users why not for all? We disregard cookies in our company completely because can potentially have switched them off.
Joerg
Sonny Sukumar wrote:
Hi guys,
I sent the below message a few days ago but didn't hear from anyone. I'm not sure why the links are being rewritten, and I've verified that it happens with IE as well (again, with cookies enabled).
I'm using the EncodeURLTransformer in all of my pipelines just before serializing the output, but from what I read I thought it is only supposed to encode URLs if cookies are disabled in the browser.
I've confirmed that cookies are enabled for my browser (Mozilla Firebird v0.6), but the URLs keep getting rewritten with a jsessionid parameter.
What could be wrong?
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