As Michael alluded to in his response, a session will be created when the user hits index.jsp unless you explicitly specify session="false" in the page directive. (See http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/syntax/2.0/syntaxref2010.html#15653) That's probably what's going on here.
- Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:04 PM > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: Struts and Sessions Problem > > Hello all! > > I have a problem with struts and sessions, perhaps someone > has an idea: > > My web.xml contains the following welcome file list: > > <welcome-file-list> > <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> > </welcome-file-list> > > My index.jsp only forwards like this: > > <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic" %> <html> > <body> > <logic:forward name="cookiecheck"/> > </body> > </html> > > My struts-config uses a global forward to map it like this: > > <global-forwards> > <forward name="cookiecheck" path="/checkcookies.do" > redirect="false"/> > > </global-forwards> > > In the struts-config the final mapping to the action is this one: > > <action > path="/checkcookies" > unknown="true" > type="somepackage.CheckCookiesAction" > scope="request" > validate="false"> > <forward name="Failure" path="/login.jsp" redirect="false"/> > <forward name="Success" path="/home.jsp" redirect="false"/> > </action> > > In CheckCookiesAction which extends Action, in the > execute(...) method I get the HTTPSession like this: > > HttpSession session = request.getSession( false ) ); > > My problem: when a user accesses my webapp for the first time > this method does not return null, although it should do so! > It is no problem of Tomcat 5.5.9 I am using, the Servlet I > wrote for testing does its work properly and returns null if > the user accesses my page for the first time. So why does > Struts behave like this? Is it because of all the forwarding > and redirecting, although it should have no effect in my opinion? > > Perhaps someone knows whats going wrong > > Peter > > -------------------------------------------------- > > MATERNA GmbH Information & Communications Vosskuhle 37 > 44141 Dortmund > Tel: +49-231-5599-8868 > Fax: +49-231-5599-678868 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.annyway.de www.materna.de > www.annyway.com www.materna.com > > Visit us at the following events: > ACI EUROPE, Munich > June, 22 - 24, 2005 > > ACI EUROPE, Verona > September, 26 - 28, 2005 > > CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2005, San Francisco > September, 27 - 29, 2005 > > Con4, Cologne > September, 27 - 29, 2005 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
