Ignore my last mail, this way is better. Ta Matt
-----Original Message----- From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 August 2005 13:42 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: session problems: www.blahblah.com versus blahblah.com I would imagine the other way to do this is to implement a filter looking for people trying to reach blahblah.com and returning a 302 redirect to www.blahblah.com. That would give them all the proper cookie from the start and could be implemented accross all your webapp resources at once. --David Michael Teter wrote: >I guess I was hoping there was some server-level redirect. > >I'm not sure how I would put the meta redirect in all my pages. My >app is a complicated mess (my fault - my lack of skill). > >The issue is that my users are clicking a PayPal "Subscribe" button, >which sends them off to PayPal. Part of the hidden information sent >to PayPal when the user clicks that button is the return path. > >So if user comes to blahblah.com, clicks the Subscribe button it sends >them to PayPal with a return path of www.blahblah.com (because that's >what I'm telling PayPal to do.) I'm thinking now I can just look at >the URL they're at now and set my PayPal return path dynamically... If >they're here as blahblah.com, I make sure to tell the PayPal form that >the return path is blahblah.com. If www, then return to www... > >Thanks for your suggestion though. I can even continue using PayPal's >encrypted buttons - I'll just make two buttons, one for www, and >theother for just blahblah, and display the appropriate button based >on current situation. > >Still, I think I was hoping that somewhere in server.xml I could say >"all requests for blahblah.com should be mapped to www.blahblah.com." > >Thanks all. > >On 8/16/05, Peter Rossbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hey Michael, >> >>I look inside the tomcat source and find that we don't set the cookie >>hostname attribute. >>That means that the calling client/browser must made the hostname >>handling. I also >>thing the redirect way is currently right direction. >> >>Peter >> >>Paul Singleton schrieb: >> >> >> >>>Michael Teter wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>If my users come to "blahblah.com", then go away, then return, they >>>>get a new session id (for www.blahblah.com). >>>> >>>>But if they come to www.blahblah.com, leave, and return (via link from >>>>external site), they keep the same session. >>>> >>>>I finally discovered that the browser (Firefox in this case) ends up >>>>with two different session cookies - one for www.blahblah.com and one >>>>for blahblah.com. >>>> >>>> >>>this behaviour seems reasonable to me... >>> >>> >>> >>>>What's the right thing to do to solve this? >>>> >>>> >>>it doesn't need solving, just accepting :-) >>> >>>but assuming you want www.blahblah.com and blahblah.com >>>to behave (session-wise) like one domain, which they aren't, >>>you could redirect (client-side) from www.blahblah.com >>>(which IMHO is the redundant/obsolete/legacy domain) to >>>blahblah.com, which allocates sessions and dishes out cookies. >>> >>>i.e. www.blahblah.com is a static site which just serves e.g. >>> >>><html> >>> <head> >>> <title><%= a.appTitle %>: redirection page</title> >>> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://blahblah.com"; /> >>> </head> >>> <body onLoad="window.location.replace('http://blahblah.com')"> >>> <!-- optional "if you are not redirected..." blurb --> >>> </body> >>><html> >>> >>>NB I haven't actually *tried* this :-) >>> >>>Paul Singleton >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- ======================================= David Smith Network Operations Supervisor Department of Entomology College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Cornell University 2132 Comstock Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: 607.255.9571 Fax: 607.255.0939 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
