I would turn on SSL in Tomcat for the traffic between the load balancers and the Tomcat servers but it kind of defeats the purpose of using the dedicated crypto engines in the load balancers.
BB This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and solely for the intended addressee(s). Do not share or use them without Fannie Mae's approval. If received in error, contact the sender and delete them. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:13 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: setting secure cookie in Tomcat 5.0 config Not really. The reason is its rather nonsensical for any webserver to set a cookie as secure when the request is not secure. -Tim Biagi, Bill (Contractor) wrote: > I've got a set of Cisco load balancers doing the SSL so Tomcat does not > know that these sessions are SSL. My guess is that is why it is not > being set. Is there any way to force Tomcat to set the jsessionid > cookie to secure? > > BB > > > This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and solely for the > intended addressee(s). Do not share or use them without Fannie Mae's > approval. If received in error, contact the sender and delete them. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:38 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: setting secure cookie in Tomcat 5.0 config > > You'll need to install fiddler to sniff when the cookie is being set. If > > the request is SSL and during that request, the JSESSIONID cookie is > created - it will be SSL. So either the cookie is being set some other > time, or IE is lying that the cookie is secure. (Or something else) > > -Tim > > Biagi, Bill (Contractor) wrote: >> The session is SSL and according to IE the jsessionid cookie is not >> secure. >> >> BB >> >> >> >> >> This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and solely for the >> intended addressee(s). Do not share or use them without Fannie Mae's >> approval. If received in error, contact the sender and delete them. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:14 PM >> To: Tomcat Users List >> Subject: Re: setting secure cookie in Tomcat 5.0 config >> >> If you are talking about the JSESSIONID cookie - if the session is >> created while your are using SSL - the secure flag is set for you. >> Nothing to configure. >> >> -Tim >> >> Biagi, Bill (Contractor) wrote: >>> How do you set Tomcat 5.0 to use secure cookies on an SSL session. >> Back >>> in 3.3 it was an attribute in server.xml of the SessionId module >> element >>> called secureCookie. Setting it to true used to mark the session id >>> cookie as "secure" if the session was established over SSL. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
