Got it figured out. I turns out that the proxy within Xerox was messing
up the cookies. Disable the proxy and all is well!
David
DAK wrote:
>
> I'm seeing something strange. (would I write if it wasn't strange?)
> I have a servlet that is used to generate an image. I include the URL
> to it as output from another servlet. (so it is embedded in the page
> generated by the first). Somewhat regularly, it fails to get the
> session object. I call request.isSessionValid() and get false. If I
> reload the page, it works fine. I'm not sure where to look. I'm using
> Tomcat 3.2.2 on Solaris 8. I've looked that the source for 3.2.2 and
> can't find anything about getting the session object that looks out of
> whack. The only thing that could cause this was if the session was
> temporarily invalid. The valid flag shouldn't be subject to race
> conditions since it is set and not changed until the session is
> recycled (or invalidated). I know I'm not marking it invalid since my
> other servlets can continue to get the session object and that same
> preview servlet that failed, will succeed the next time around.
>
> Any pointers for the more seasoned folks? I'm going to try switching
> from session cookies to see how that works.
>
> David
>
