This sounds like a bug that was fixed in "beta 7" or "beta 8" -- I'd ask the submitter
to try it under the 3.2.1 release.
Craig
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> Report #68 Details
>
> Project: Tomcat
> Category: Bug Report
> SubCategory: New Bug Report
> Class: swbug
> State: linked
> Priority: high
> Severity: critical
> Confidence: public
> Environment:
> Release: 3.2 beta 3
> JVM Release: 1.2
> Operating System: Windows
> OS Release: 98
> Platform: PC
>
> Synopsis:
> request.getSession() fails when followed by RequestDispatcher.include()
>
> Description:
> The following example is a servlet which opens a session, and then :
> 1- does nothing
> 2- include a JSP
> 3- forward to a JSP
>
> cases 1 and 3 work fine : a JSESSIONID cookie is set, and the session context is
>retrieved
> properly on the next requests.
> Case 2 fails : the JSESSIONID cookie is not set. And a new session context is
>created at each request.
>
> BUG ANALYSIS :
> --------------
>
> With a debugger, one can see that the SessionInterceptor::beforeBody() method is not
>called in the
> case 2 (include), but it is called in the other cases. (it is the method which
>create the JSESSIONID cookie).
>
> It seems that the bug comes in the following method :
>HttpResponseAdapter.notifyEndHeaders().
> The last test is false in the case of the JSP include. So the
> doBeforeBody is not called. This is not good since the servlet should be capable to
>work on HTTP headers, open session,...
> before it includes a JSP.
>
> /** Signal that we're done with the headers, and body will follow.
> * Any implementation needs to notify ContextManager, to allow
> * interceptors to fix headers.
> */
> public void notifyEndHeaders() throws IOException {
> // System.out.println("End headers " + request.getProtocol());
> if (request.getProtocol() == null)
> // HTTP/0.9
> return;
>
> // let CM notify interceptors and give a chance to fix
> // the headers
> BUG >>> if (request.getContext() != null && notIncluded)
> request.getContext().getContextManager().doBeforeBody(request, this);
>
> // No action..
> }
>
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