First of all thanks for replying...
Actually i am authenticating user based on session attribute. i.e if user name 
is present in session.
As u said told abt 'sessions being serialized' can i know more about this..or 
how can i avoid it??

Regards.
dd

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 Laurie Harper wrote :
>d d wrote:
>>   I am working on a struts web application with oracle as back end.I use 
>> tomcat. I am using filter so that if user has not logged in he cannot access 
>> any of the pages.I have a problem for logging..
>>I login into my application..Use the application..Now if suddenly i close 
>>Tomcat Server.. and restart it ..and refresh my old page..it continues to 
>>work.
>>This perticularly happens if there is a action in url..
>>e.g address bar has. "http/localhost:8080/web/app/ss.do" and the server is 
>>restarted, filter does not work..and page continues to flow.
>>  and if address bar contains "http/....../ss.jsp" filter works and user is 
>> forced to login.
>>  I havent judged the exact problem yet .Can anyone help me?
>
>How are you performing authentication? If you're using HTTP Basic 
>authentication, a restart of Tomcat wont clear the user's credentials from the 
>browser so subsequent requests will continue to authenticate as you're seeing. 
>Alternatively, if you're relying on data stored in the session to determine if 
>the session has been authenticated, you may see this as a result of sessions 
>being serialized to disk on Tomcat shutdown and reloaded on subsequent 
>requests.
>
>In other words, without knowing more about your authentication scheme it's 
>impossible to say if this behaviour is 'wrong' or not. Perhaps you could post 
>the filter code you're using?
>
>L.
>-- Laurie Harper
>Open Source advocate, Java geek: http://www.holoweb.net/laurie
>Founder, Zotech Software: http://www.zotechsoftware.com/
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