Will Hartung is asking the same questions just hours ago in the thread "cross-site single sign on" on the tomcat user list - so you are not alone. However I don't have any experience with this (& it's getting OT). Sorry. Following is an interesting bit from his message:

Now, if you have sitea.com and siteb.com, then the cookie technique can't
work (as neither can set a cookie for the other). So, I'm thinking that you
can do something similiar, a signed token, in a hidden field and then having
to submit a form to get to the new site.

Of course, you can always stick the token on the URL as well.

On 12/03/2003 10:42 AM Gurpreet Dhanoa wrote:
hi Adam

You are on the right track in understanding my concern. Anyway i  have
madeit possible. But now there is a small new issue.
it is

I want to access the sessionId of another Web Server into some other web
server.
I meant say i have a domain A on Server A, I want to access the sessionId of
Domain A onto the Domain B on Server B.

I think this is a very strange question but i have been asked the same.

ANy help of you guys
Thanks
Gary



----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Changing SessionId at every request



I assume that Gurpreet wants to do it for security reasons and it's not
a bad idea. It certainly means that nobody would be able to share a
session, and so therefor a session-hijack would become obviously
immediately.

I think expiring the session is overkill - I would just leave the
session as it is and use the filter to check and change my own
hand-rolled session id.

Adam

On 12/03/2003 08:20 AM Navjot Singh wrote:

don't know why do you wish to do so?
but it an be done. Write a filter. pass every request thru that.

1. Fetch the session, expire it. Server will assign new.
2. Fetch the session, don't expire the session, just append a timestamp

to


it. set a cookie and use that to maintain session.

HTH
navjot singh



-----Original Message-----
From: Gurpreet Dhanoa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 11:44 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Changing SessionId at every request


HI,


IS it possible to change the Session Id generated by the Web
Server at every request for the  same client. I wil make it much
more clear.

Say i have a Servlet running on Tomcat. what i want is when ever
any User lets assume USER A ask for a request i want to change the
sessionId server variable which has been gerenrated by the Web
Server to uniquely identify the client.

Purpose behind doing this is to make every request safe.


Any suggections will be higly appreciated.



Thanks in Advance Gary



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