Ruel,

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Ruel Loehr
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The application which I am attempting to test has a login page.   Once the
> user is logged in, they receive a session id and are forwarded to another
> struts action.   The second struts action pulls the session for the request
> and checks its validity.
>
>
>
> I'm attempting to use the spiderman plugin, but it appears that the a
> different session is being used when I'm forwarded to my second action.
>
>
>
> Has anyone ever experienced this?

No, not me.

>   Are there any configurations I might be
> missing?   I haven't found anything yet by viewing the docs or mail
> archives.

Have you read the HOWTO about performing an authenticated scan [0] ?
While I think that you've got it covered and this sounds more like a
w3af bug, please read the HOWTO and try again. If its still not
working, would it be possible for us to get our hands on that web
application, or the recorded HTTP requests of w3af failing to login
AND a browser succeeding?

[0] http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/wiki/perform-authenticated-scan-howto

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