Help please.
I'm using sun's JavaWebServer 2.0 (demo) and I just can't get session to work.
I always get the fallowing error message back from the WebServer when I add the line. If the line is not included all is fine.
Is there a setting that I'm missing, I just don't get it. Thanks
HttpSession session = req.getSession(true);
This gives me
500 Internal Server Error
The servlet named Login at the requested URL
http://scote2:9090/servlet/Login
reported this exception: java.lang.NullPointerException. Please report this to the administrator of the web server.
java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.server.http.HttpServiceRequest.getRequestedSessionId(Compiled
Code) at
com.sun.server.http.HttpServiceRequest.isRequestedSessionIdFromCookie(HttpServiceRequest.java:375) at
com.sun.server.http.HttpServiceRequest.isRequestedSessionIdValid(HttpServiceRequest.java:400) at
com.sun.server.http.HttpServiceRequest.getSession(HttpServiceRequest.java:220) at
com.sun.server.http.FilterHttpServletRequest.getSession(FilterHttpServletRequest.java:379) at
Login.doGet(Compiled Code) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:534) at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:639) at
com.sun.server.ServletState.callService(ServletState.java:226) at
com.sun.server.ServletManager.callServletService(ServletManager.java:936) at
com.sun.server.http.servlet.InvokerServlet.service(InvokerServlet.java:137) at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:639) at
com.sun.server.ServletState.callService(ServletState.java:226) at
com.sun.server.ServletManager.callServletService(ServletManager.java:936) at
com.sun.server.ProcessingState.invokeTargetServlet(ProcessingState.java:423) at
com.sun.server.http.HttpProcessingState.execute(HttpProcessingState.java:79) at
com.sun.server.http.stages.Runner.process(Runner.java:79) at
com.sun.server.ProcessingSupport.process(Compiled Code) at com.sun.server.Service.process(Service.java:204)
at com.sun.server.http.HttpServiceHandler.handleRequest(HttpServiceHandler.java:419) at
com.sun.server.http.HttpServiceHandler.handleRequest(Compiled Code) at
com.sun.server.HandlerThread.run(Compiled Code)
