Thanks Matt, that's what I thought aswell, but after playing the "filter lottery" it turned out to be sitemesh.
As it appears in sitemesh 2.2.1, the PageFilter class has this snippet of code: // force creation of the session now because Tomcat 4 had problems with // creating sessions after the response had been committed if (Container.get() == Container.TOMCAT) { request.getSession(true); } I saw that PageFiler is deprecated in 2.4 in favor of SiteMeshFilter, but I did not get the chance to try and upgrade. As a workaround I have changed the for the sitemesh filter from "/*" to "*.jsp" and it seems to work. Thanks again for your suggestion, Florian mraible wrote: > > I would try commenting out filters locally and see. My guess is the > securityFilter is causing this. > > Matt > > On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Florian Kirchhoff wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I am using AppFuse 2.0 with Spring MVC to develop a simple web >> application >> deployed on Tomcat 5.5.23. >> I have a problem with the creation of unwanted session. In our >> production >> environement a load balancer is used which issues an HTTP GET every 10 >> seconds to check the application is up. The GET is for a URL to an >> image >> (e.g. /myapp/images/check.gif). The problem is that each of these >> requests >> creates a new session. My guess is that one of the filters that >> AppFuse has >> configured is responsible for this behavior. >> My questions are: >> 1) Is there a way to find out which Filter creates the sessions? >> 2) If the responsible filter cannot be switched off how can I prevent >> session from being created for a simple HTTP get of an image? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Florian >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Find-Filter-that-creates-sessions-tp21715563s2369p21715563.html >> Sent from the AppFuse - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@appfuse.dev.java.net >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@appfuse.dev.java.net >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@appfuse.dev.java.net > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@appfuse.dev.java.net > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Find-Filter-that-creates-sessions-tp21715563s2369p21728611.html Sent from the AppFuse - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.