Thanks Craig Tomcat is not only doing this on the first page, but also on all the subsequesnt pages. And theres no jsessionid cookie in the cookie folder. I also disabled the firewall, to see if the cookie was being blocked there. Do you know how something like this might happen?
--- Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/15/06, Mon Cab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > All of a sudden tomcat has stopped settign session cookies. I have > > been developing on my local machine for approx 1yr. Now, When I > goto my > > webapps home page: http:/127.0.0.1:8080/webapp), tomcat is > rewriting > > the URL as > > > > > http://127.0.0.1:8080/webapp/Welcome.do;jsessionid=DAF0604E76E234C157A9BFDF53FD2617 > > , > > indicating that it is not setting a session cookie. When I check > the > > session cookie folder C:\Documents and Settings\user\Cookies. There > is > > no jsessionid cookie. > > > > When I set a cookie from within webapp, the cookie is set as normal > and > > stored in the cookie folder C:\Documents and Settings\user\Cookies, > and > > is retrieved by my web application. > > > > Why is Tomcat not setting a session cookie? > > > > I configured my browser to accept all session cookies. I am using > > Windows XP Pro, with IE6, j2sdk1.4.2_08, Tomcat 5.0.28. > > > > This has been working as it is supposed to for 1 year. > > > > Can anyone explain what is going on? > > > When you submit the very first request in a new session, Tomcat has > no way > to know whether your client has cookies enabled or not. So, it sends > the > session id both ways (via URL rewriting, and by sending a cookie). > If the > second request comes back in with a cookie, Tomcat says "aha, this > particular client supports session cookies" and turns off the > rewriting. > Otherwise, it will continue the rewriting for all subsequent requests > in the > same session. > > Craig > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
