On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:00 -0400, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Assuming that Tomcat is managing your sessions (there aren't too many > good reasons to manage your own sessions), then Tomcat uses either > cookies or URL rewriting to maintain sessions between requests.
I'm sorry, I'm not following. By saying "managing your sessions", do you mean running tomcat standalone or letting tomcat manager the sessions and that the httpd uses the sessions off of the tomcat? > > Probably not: Tomcat should do this for you already. > > Usually, sessions get lost because Tomcat has had to resort to URL > rewriting, but the application has not been written with this in mind. > For instance, every single URL that you generate ought to go through > request.encodeURL to make sure that the session id is properly added if > necessary. If you don't do this, then you'll end up creating a new > session when you use that (session-less) link. Do they go through request.encodeURL automatically or do I have to do something? Sorry for all the questions, I'm no developer and I'm surely not a tomcat administrator, they just shoved me the responsibility a couple of months ago and I've been learning ever since. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
