If your web-farm is 'sticky' then you don't have a problem during normal
operation. Once a user comes in he will use the same web-server for the
length of the session. Of course if the web-server goes down and your
load-balancer redirects the user to another server you will lose that
session.
Kevin Jones wrote:
>
> If we use the session api from a servlet (or JSP) then the session
> information is stored on the web-server (yes?) and a cookie (assuming
> cookies are enabled) is sent to the agent with a session id. Suppose we have
> a web-farm - looking in the Servlet API it doesn't mention what happens in
> this case. i.e. what happens if I have more than one web server servicing a
> site - where are server-side sessions stored? does any web-server/servlet
> engine offer this capability?
>
> Kevin
>
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