> From: Adam Lipscombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If I pass the > session ID from the calling window to the > spawned window, what do I do with it? Look up the session > cookie with JavaScript? Then what? > Ideally I want the child window to share the same session.
Thinking about this, there's a built-in alternative. PROBLEM: Using session cookies to maintain session state is not guaranteed to work when the user has multiple iexplore.exe processes open, as a pop-up may be launched in a different iexplore.exe process to the original window. [Aside: I do this regularly when testing and still have never seen this behaviour, but...] SOLUTION: Don't use session cookies to store session information. Tomcat can read session information from the query string instead, adding a JSESSIONID= parameter to all URLs. Set up your context to disable cookies and use URL rewriting (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html has the details for 5.5.x; do the obvious with the URL for different Tomcat versions). Can't say I like it, but if you're genuinely getting this problem, this is probably the least bad solution. I'm still surprised you're getting the problem, though. It's the first time I've encountered it (or even heard it mentioned) in several years of writing and testing apps with pop-ups and multiple IE instances. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
