I believe if you set the p3p policy correctly (in your tomcat) ie7
will accept the third party cookies.

regards
Leon

On Nov 22, 2007 11:05 PM, J.Gustafsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have an interesting problem (I think) that I wonder if someone could
> assist me with.
>
> I want to do cross-domain scripting. I have some java-script that makes a
> cross-domain http request to a Tomcat server. This works fine as long as
> third-party cookies are allowed in the browser. Tomcat can keep track of the
> session by the jsessionId. If cookies are not allowed at all in the browser,
> I simple let the java-script decide to not make a cross-domain call at all.
> Those are not interesting for my application. My problems appear when first
> part cookies are allowed, but third-party is not (the default settings in
> IE7 I think). The java-script will think that cookies are allowed and make
> the cross-domain http call. Since third party cookies are not allowed,
> Tomcat is not allowed to set a jsessionId on a cookie, but instead add the
> jsessionId on the URL.
>
> This is unfortunately not good enough for me. When third-party cookies are
> allowed, my java-script provides a first-part cookie in the cross-domain
> http call. I use this value to identify the user, and set it on the session
> created by Tomcat. If however Tomcat cannot set cookies, since third-party
> cookie is not allowed, I simply cannot do like this.
>
> So what do I actually want to achieve?
> I would like Tomcat to bypass its "sanity" check when URL-rewrite is done. I
> want Tomcat to create a session with a key (jsessionId) I provides it with.
> Does this sound totally insane? Maybe it is. Perhaps there is another
> solution I have not thought of?
>
> I know there is another solution, running Tomcat session-less and write to a
> file/db for each call, but because of performance reasons, I would like to
> avoid this.
>
> Any ideas/proposals?
>
> /jonas
>
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