Excellent and Thanks
--- "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Rajan Gupta wrote:
>
> > Hi! All,
> > The mail reader documentation suggests that html:link encodes the
> session
> > id with the link if the browser has turned off cookies. What does it
> mean
> > by saying
> > "Automatically URL-encodes hyperlinks as needed"
> >
> > Does it depend upon if cookies are enabled or not? But I could not see
> > that in the code, I think it always encodes the url regardless.
> >
> > Any insight on this or I am missing something?
> >
>
> It is a clumsy way of saying that Struts always calls
> response.encodeURL() or response.encodeRedirectURL() for you.
>
> Whether the session ID actually shows up in the generated hyperlink or
> not
> depends on whether the servlet container thinks your client has cookies
> enabled or not. On the first response that is part of the session, the
> container has no way to know - so it sends the session ID both ways (as
> a
> cookie and in the URL). If the second request contains the session
> cookie, the container says "aha, this client supports cookies" so it
> stops
> modifying the generated URLs on hyperlinks. The call to
> response.encodeURL() is still happening; it is just returning the URL
> without modifying it.
>
> See the Servlet Specification, version 2.2, for more information about
> how
> session tracking works.
>
> http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html
>
>
> > Thanks
> > Rajan
> >
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
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