Hi, Another possibility is to set up tomcat to serialize session to disk before restart. Tt deserializes all session at the start up so user will remain login with all session variables it in ideal case he won't notice the restart at all.
Palko On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:21 -0400, Martin Dubuc wrote: > I am running Tomcat 6.0.18. > > My application uses form based authentication. > > I am not sure how to handle the case where a user navigates to one of the > secure page after logging in and Tomcat is restarted. The problem is that > from the secured page, if the user clicks on any of the links after the > restart, Tomcat will redirect to the login page (which is expected) and > then, after the login, it will execute the code that it would normally > execute when the user clicks on the link. The problem that I am facing is > that since the application is using a new session, there might be some > session based variables that are not initialized. Ultimately, if Tomcat is > restarted, I would rather the user be redirected to a predetermined page > (some kind of home page), but it seems that instead, and I believe this is > as per the servlet spec, Tomcat displays the page information it had stored > in its container before restarting. > > Any advice on how to best handle this? > > Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
