Hello there - newbie question. I'm developing a browser-based application. I i) copy the war file to the webapps/ directory, ii) startup tomcat and iii) send an http request from Firefox.
In my handling servlet, if a session doesn't exist for this client, then I create one (via request.getSession(true)). I expect that cookie (and by extension the session) to still be there on the next request. However, tomcat's HTTP response to the first request does not include the JSESSIONID cookie. So effectively my application is still only request scoped (tomcat is creating a new session with each request). How can I get tomcat ( I've tried tomcat-5.5.25 and tomcat-6.0.16 ) to reliably send the JSESSIONID cookie when a new session has been created? I turned on Tomcat 6's RequestDumperValve, and got debugging info that indicates that the JSESSIONID is being generated in the response. However, when my browser receives the response, the cookie isn't there. Tomcat's RequestDumperValve Log (on response) END EchoServlet EV: <userSession xmlns='com/interrupt/bookkeeping/users' id='686bbca4f757b9ab4bae280 3119786e7249-7ffb' groupid='webkell' userid='root' /> Apr 22, 2008 7:18:35 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: --------------------------------------------------------------- Apr 22, 2008 7:18:35 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: authType=null Apr 22, 2008 7:18:35 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: contentLength=95 Apr 22, 2008 7:18:35 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: contentType=null Apr 22, 2008 7:18:35 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: cookie=JSESSIONID=6014EF8C55BC4705D28863D117B1B334; domain=null; path=/webkell Apr 22, 2008 7:18:35 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: header=Content-Length=95 Apr 22, 2008 7:18:35 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: header=Date=Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:18:35 GMT Apr 22, 2008 7:18:35 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: message=null Apr 22, 2008 7:18:36 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: remoteUser=null Apr 22, 2008 7:18:36 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: status=200 Apr 22, 2008 7:18:36 PM org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve invoke INFO: =============================================================== Firefox Request Headers (from LiveHTTPHeaders): POST /webkell/webkell HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost:8080 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Referer: http://localhost:8080/webkell/ Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 63 Firefox Response Headers (from LiveHTTPHeaders): HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Length: 95 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:18:35 GMT Thanks for any help Tim __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.
