>>> Jon Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03-Jul-00 8:16:52 PM >>>
>> Hi all,
>> There is a point i'd like to discuss. In the session API, there is
no
>> way to find the name of the cookie or the parameters used to store
the
>> session ID. This names depends on several things, such as servlet
engine
>> and servelet zone (for Apache). I think this could be a real
improvement
>> to be able to retrive the name of the cookie/paramter used to
store the
>> session ID. This point could look pointless, but it's not. In
recent
>> developpement I had to "pass" the session from a HTML page to an
applet
>> (because the session contains information - login, database
connection
>> etc..). It is impossible to do this using a fair way. This only
solution
>> I found was to manually write all cookie names and values as
parameters
>> for the applet.
>I believe this has all been fixed in later versions of the Servlet
API. Try
>using Tomcat.
Jon is right once again.
The parameter name has now been standardised to "jsessionid".
Whether this is worth changing in JServ is a matter of debate and I
think Jon indicates the core dev teams view.
FWIW Tomcat DOES fix this.
Nic Ferrier
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