Saumont Pierre-Yves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The session ID is pushed as a cookie if cookies are accepted by the browser.
> Of course, IE 5.5 accepts cookies. If the cookie is refused, the server
> generally use URL rewriting to track the session. The session ID coming back
> to the server is refered as 'session ID being asked by the client' in the
> servlet documentation. No matter how it is achieved, Java session tracking
> will never work with IE 5.5. This is not really a problem if you are aware
> of it and do your own session tracking. (I use identified session tracking
> through PathInfo, storing HttpoSession objects in a HashTable. The main
> drawback is having to take care of invalidation while this could be
> automated with Java sessions.)
>
> The real concern is for developpers who are not aware of this problem and
> might rely on Java session tracking. It may take some times before they
> realise their servlets are not "compatible" with IE 5.5 clients.
>
> Another interesting question is "Why". Could it be a Microsoft decision ?
So, you're saying that IE-5.5 is apparently rejecting the jsessionid cookie
and ignoring when this parameter is URL-encoded in the request?
That _is_ weird. And I don't think M$ could actually handle if this was made
"on purpose" (imagine the flamewar)... I know though that I had problems
reported from BugZilla users (check out http://nagoya.javasoft.com/bugzilla)
having the same issues with something that is definitely not Java-Based (and
uses the same session tracking mechanism that servlet engines are supposed
to)... Can you check out if BugZilla works for you? I'll have someone @ Sun
to try out Sessions with IE-5.5...
Pier
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