I think it would be difficult, since JSESSIONID is distinct for each
webapp on a Tomcat, only JSESSIONIDSSO (if the SingleSignon valve
is activated) is common to all webapps.

I'll try to think of something, but if you think of something first,
let me know :)

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> +1
> 
> But before doing that - would it be possible to replace JSESSIONIDSSO 
> with a mechanism relying only on JSESSIONID ? 
> 
> Even if we patch mod_jk, there are other load balancing solutions
> ( hardware, etc ) - it would be much simpler if from 'outside'
> we would only use the standard JSESSIONID cookie / path param.
> 
> Costin
> 
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Denis Benoit wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > With the current code (TC 4.1.6), the single signon does not work with the
> > loadbalancer connector.
> > 
> > If a user was logged in a given webapp, the loadbalancer looks at the
> > JSESSIONID cookie (or URL parameter) to dispatch the request properly to the
> > tomcat where the user was logged on.  But if the user hits another webapp,
> > the JSESSIONID is not present anymore and the dispatcher applies its
> > round-robin logic to dispatch the request to any tomcat.  It nullifies the
> > effect of the single signon.  There is two problem that prevent it to work.
> > 
> > 1. On the Tomcat side, the generateSessionId() method of
> >    org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase does not append
> >    the jvmRoute of the Engine if one is specified.  So when a user changes
> >    webapp, the web connector dispatcher does not have any information to
> >    properly route the request;
> > 
> > 2. The current loadbalancer code specifically look for the JSESSIONID cookie
> >    and does not look for a JSESSIONIDSSO cookie.
> > 
> > I could provide a patch to org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase
> > to add the jvmRoute to the session id; in fact it is a copy of the code from
> > org.apache.catalina.session.ManagerBase.
> > 
> > The change in:
> > 
> >     ./jk/native/common/jk_lb_worker.c
> >     ./jk/native2/common/jk_requtil.c
> > 
> > is also trivial, first the connector must look for the JSESSIONID cookie (or
> > param), and if not found it should look for the JSESSIONIDSSO cookie (or
> > param).  Then the same logic should be applied if either one is found.
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
> > 
> 

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Denis Benoit



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