I've been pulling hair out for several days with what turns out to be the
same problem, except it's occurring on a Windows 2000 Server running IIS 5.0
and Tomcat 4.1.24. The logs show that the first request to a servlet done
via POST gets a different session id than the follow-on request via GET to
the same servlet, same URL.
The same app works fine on another Win2K server running Apache. The one
that doesn't work is behind a proxy server doing proxypassdir's to map a URL
to an internal IP. Could this be the problem, or is it an IIS thing?
If you really want to see what's happening, put your own proxy between the client and the first server on your backend (I use zproxy -- google for it) to look at the http messages going back and forth. Check the response that you're getting from Tomcat and note the JSESSIONID provided after the first call. See what JSESSIONID the client machine sends back. You can put the same proxy (or any http-level sniffer) between any of the servers and see who's passing what.
If you've established that Tomcat is receiving two different sessionId values, then you can be sure there's a mixup somewhere else (and the more hands you've got in the cookie jar, the more chances someone else is screwing things up).
Wendell Holmes
justin
-----Original Message----- From: Justin Ruthenbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 4:25 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Tomcat 4 losing session (may be related to Win XP)
Are the sessions the same between the two calls? That is, when you call HttpSession#getId() for each of them do you get the same id back?
justin
At 02:27 PM 11/5/2003, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I've come across a situation I can't figure out and I'm wondering if it >has to do with the fact that this is the first time we've installed >Tomcat on Windows XP Prof. > >Symptom: Tomcat loses session. If you set up a very simple two JSP >process where page 1 stuffs (setAttribute) something into the session, >and page 2 displays it, the value comes back as null > >Tests: if I copy the two JSPs to the examples directory included in the >Tomcat distribution, the pages perform properly. If I create my own >context and execute the pages from there, the getAttribute returns null. > >I created the context by duplicating the context in the server.xml file >and pretty much just changing the codebase. > >Other environment info: running behind Apache2 (latest), on port 8082 >(http) and 8009 (AJP13) because Oracle Servlet Engine shows up on port >8080 (side note: anyone have info on how to get the flying pig to go >away when you've uninstalled the Oracle HTTP server???); JDK 1.4.*, and >this is Tomcat 4 (latest). > >The exact same set up works fine on Windows 2003 and Windows 2000 Prof. >And this machine works fine as a client to the server running on any >other machine, so it's not a cookie issue I don't think. > >Am I missing something obvious? Could it be permission-related? >Something in the way the session data is stored on disk? Sure would >appreciate any advice. > >Andrew Longley >Senior Software Developer >MindFlow Technologies, Inc. >http://www.mindflow.com
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