Re: how to control lifetime of JSessionID cookie in Tomcat 5.5

2006-04-04 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
that is correct, yahoo for example will not store anything on the server, they just store a cookie on the client. Filip Leon Rosenberg wrote: I think you mixing things up. The http session isn't designed to run forever. The session ends as soon as the user closes his browser. If you want to h

Re: how to control lifetime of JSessionID cookie in Tomcat 5.5

2006-04-04 Thread Leon Rosenberg
I think you mixing things up. The http session isn't designed to run forever. The session ends as soon as the user closes his browser. If you want to have some kind of direct login, you should just set your own cookie, evaluate this cookie in your first servlet/jsp/action or filter and login the us