Whilst investigating a strange bug some of our customers were experiencing using links in Excel to our web application I discovered that the root of it was this strange behaviour in Excel.
After monitoring the http requests I discovered that clicking a hyperlink in Excel creates the following multiple HTTP GET requests: -------------- GET /test.jsp HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Host: localhost:8088 Connection: Keep-Alive Cookie: JSESSIONID=04E1A0B6BD7532F746F2BFCAE167422F GET /test.jsp HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-gb Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Host: localhost:8088 Connection: Keep-Alive -------------- Notice the lack of JSESSIONID on the second request, this basically results in a new session being created and the previous session (and data) being lost. I have searched in vain for any information on this. Have any of you knowledgable web veterans seen this before or do you know of any fix, workaround or Tomcat related fix? Thanks in advance Andy Chapman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
