Entering login&password only one time?

Question

Hello,
we have an appllication that is called from another by opening new brower window with URL http://..../pls/htmldb/f?p=107:1:::::P1_ID:12345
The user is redirected to login page and after succesfully enter his login and password id redirected to page 1 and information obout object with ID 123456 are shown....
My problem is that if another window is opened with URL say http://..../pls/htmldb/f?p=107:1:::::P1_ID:9999 the user needs to enter valid loginname and password again and new session is created. If I add the session id into URL
then the session is reused and no login&password is needed.
So the question : how can I make a user to enter login&password only once? Or how can i get the last session id that i should use in URL creation in my other appllication?
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Ivok - Your questions are perfectly reasonable. I didn't read your question carefully enough at first. You are right, you can't use &SESSION. in the URL itself. That substitution variable is for use during page rendering (during which time links are also rendered). In your case, you have a link on a page in application A that opens a popup window in application B. I assume application A is an APEX app (but maybe it isn't). If you don't have the session ID being used by app B, then the login page will be shown unless the page is a public page. So you might need a way for app A to get the current session ID from app B. Or you might be able to run both apps as one application in the same session. If you give us a little more detail about your specific requirements, we can go from there.
Scott