Hello all - This was a pebkac style error. I have solved the problem. Thank you for the rapid replies. Take care. brian
"Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the second point, can you list your web.xml, the portion where you map the filter at least? Chances are you have it mapped incorrectly. On the first point, can we see your filter? There's no inherent reason you can't do what your trying to do with a filter and Struts, so there is some detail wrong somewhere, but what you posted here is most likely not sufficient to answer. Seeing your code, and the associated configuration, will probably help. Frank CrackheadMillionaire wrote: > Hello friends - > > I recently implemented a filter to push some information into the session. > Great. However, after filter processing and within my DispatchAction, if I > make a call to request.getSession().getAttribute("whateverName"); the values > aren't there; in fact, the session attached to my incoming request is null. > > Digging around in the debugger I can find my objects, but it's buried pretty > deep within a layer of of nested ApplicationHttpRequest objects; I don't even > appear to have the ability to get to it. If I put things into the session > from within my DispatchAction, no problems it's always there. > > Also, can anyone explain why my filter is bypassed if the mapping is for > *.jsp, but gets hit for *.do? > > Any advice is greatly appreciated. > > - brian > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ > countries) for 2ยข/min or less. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com AIM: fzammetti Yahoo: fzammetti MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Web Parts - http://javawebparts.sourceforge.net Supplying the wheel, so you don't have to reinvent it! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.