--- Andrew Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whilst investigating a strange bug some of our > customers were experiencing > using links in Excel to our web application I > discovered that the root of it > was this strange behaviour in Excel. > > After monitoring the http requests I discovered that > clicking a hyperlink in > Excel creates the following multiple HTTP GET > requests: > > -------------- > > GET /test.jsp HTTP/1.1 > Accept: */* > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate > User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; > Windows NT 5.1; SV1) > Host: localhost:8088 > Connection: Keep-Alive > Cookie: JSESSIONID=04E1A0B6BD7532F746F2BFCAE167422F > > GET /test.jsp HTTP/1.1 > Accept: */* > Accept-Language: en-gb > Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate > User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; > Windows NT 5.1; SV1) > Host: localhost:8088 > Connection: Keep-Alive > > -------------- > > Notice the lack of JSESSIONID on the second request, > this basically results > in a new session being created and the previous > session (and data) being > lost. > > I have searched in vain for any information on this. > Have any of you > knowledgable web veterans seen this before or do you > know of any fix, > workaround or Tomcat related fix? > > Thanks in advance > > Andy Chapman Yep...known IE issue. IE is a COM component and thus is used as the built in browser in most Windows ware which uses HTML display and URL browsing, so any IE issue will be available in any application using it.
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