Answering my own post, here is what drove me nuts; we have a firewall configured on each machine (preconfigured and installed by our admins) which does not only monitor connections but also _silently_ blocks third party cookies by default. Because of our servers setup, all cookies were treated as third party after the initial response by the firewall and thus eliminated. I could bite my own a... for spending so much time on such a stupid mistake - but I never thought the firewall would be filtering cookies without ever telling me :(
Going home now, Jan "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 12.12.2005 20:22:47: > Guten Tag Jan- > did you find any restrictions in java.policy file? > Anyone else? > M > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jan Behrens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 11:55 AM > Subject: Antwort: Re: Session cookies on Linux > > > > Hi Martin, > > > > thanks for the shot ;) Unfortunately this is not the problem, Tomcat has > > r&w access to these dirs and successfully writes to them. It's just not > > handling the session ID via cookies, but then again I am not sure whether > > this is realy related to the dir question or maybe something else... > > > > Thanks anyway, Jan > > > > "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 12.12.2005 17:41:10: > > > >> This is a shot in the dark but does the sym linked folder have write > >> permission ? > >> assume that tomcat is installed to /usr/local/tomcat..e.g. > >> chmod +w /usr/local/tomcat > >> Anyone else? > >> Viel Gluck, > >> Martin- > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Jan Behrens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > >> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:51 AM > >> Subject: Re: Session cookies on Linux > >> > >> > >> > Anyone? > >> > I am still stuck on this, I admit that our machine's setup is a bit > >> > 'special' as it has to IPs with a server instance bound to each. But > >> > everything else works fine, except for this stupid cookie problem. Can > >> > someone clarify whether using symlinks within the Tomcat install > > directory > >> > is ok? We are using a couple, for /temp and /work amongst others. > > Because > >> > the work dir is used by Tomcat just fine however, I beliebe this > > should be > >> > ok. > >> > > >> > Any help on this is very much appreciated. > >> > > >> > TIA, Jan > >> > > >> > > >> > Jan Behrens > >> > OFFIS > >> > FuE-Bereich Betriebliches Informationsmanagement > >> > Escherweg 2 - 26121 Oldenburg - Germany > >> > Fon: +49 4 41 97 22 - 187 - Fax: +49 4 41 97 22-102 > >> > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - URL: http://www.offis.de > >> > > >> > Jan Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 12.12.2005 13:33:41: > >> > > >> >> Thanks for the input Peter. What I see now is even more confusing to > > me; > >> > > >> >> > >> >> - Tomcat sets a cookie containing a session id X > >> >> - On the request however, the URL gets rewritten using session id Y > > (and > >> > X > >> >> != Y) > >> >> > >> >> All subsequent requests made are handled via URL rewriting using > > session > >> > > >> >> id Y. I can see this behaviour both on my own app as well as on the > >> > admin > >> >> app... I am at a loss as to what to do next :( > >> >> > >> >> Any ideas? TIA, Jan > >> >> > >> >> Peter Rossbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 12.12.2005 10:07:02: > >> >> > >> >> > a) Setup Firefox LiveHTTPHeader Plugin or nettools http proxy to > > scan > >> >> > you traffic. > >> >> > When tomcat not see a JSESSIONID cookie at the request the can't > >> >> > associate a session. > >> >> > > >> >> > b) StandardSession Manager store all Session at shutdown app at > >> >> > work/Catalina/<host>/<app>/SESSIONS.ser > >> >> > All dirs must me writeable for your tomcat user > >> >> > . > >> >> > Peter > >> >> > > >> >> > Jan Behrens schrieb: > >> >> > > >> >> > >Hi list, > >> >> > > > >> >> > >I have a problem with session cookies on a Linux server. Both > > Tomcat > >> >> > >instances running on the machine don't seem to be able to store > >> > session > >> >> > >> >> > >data in cookies. They otherwise work just fine, just no cookies. I > >> > have > >> >> > >> >> > >obviously checked all browser settings as well as made sure that > > all > >> >> > >webapps in question have the cookie flag turned on. However, > > Tomcat > >> > is > >> >> > >still not setting any cookies... > >> >> > > > >> >> > >My set-up: > >> >> > >- Suse Linux server (kernel 2.6.8-24.18-smp) > >> >> > >- Multiprocessor machine with 4 GB memory > >> >> > >- Sun VM 1.4.2_08-b03 > >> >> > >- 2 Tomcat 5.0.28 instances > >> >> > > > >> >> > >Maybe this is a problem with fileset permission's? Tomcat runs as > >> > user > >> >> > >tomcat and I think I checked each dir Tomcat needs to write into > > but > >> > I > >> >> am > >> >> > >not sure where cookies are normally stored in. 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