New HttpSession always created instead of re-used

Question

Hi,
          I've noticed there are a lot of questions about the use of HttpSessions
          in WL 5.1 and
          I'm also having problems.
          I have a servlet that is creating an HttpSession like this;
          HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
          The first time I call this servlet it creates a new session - however in
          this servlet's
          page I allow the user to look at what is contained in their session
          object (their envelope
          of shopping items). Every time the user invokes the servlet again by
          selecting their
          'envelope' instead of looking in their current session object a new one
          is created.
          Therefore I can't maintain state of the servlet containing the envelope
          items.
          It sounds like other folks are having this problem as well. My servlet
          is in a web application.
          My weblogic.properties file has these entries;
          weblogic.httpd.session.enable=true
          weblogic.httpd.session.persistence=false
          // I've tried it with persistence=true also
          The problems with sessions occurs on both Netscape and IE although both
          of them
          have cookies enabled.
          Any ideas what the problem is? Is there some setting in
          weblogic.properties I need to
          add to get sessions to be persistent between servlet invocations?
          Thanks,
          Susan Cline
          [email protected]
          

Answer 1

And does the servlet which is run from the envelope use getSession( true )?
          or getSession( false )?
          If you're using true all the time, you're destroying the session.
          "Susan Cline" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          news:[email protected]...
          > Hi,
          >
          > I've noticed there are a lot of questions about the use of HttpSessions
          > in WL 5.1 and
          > I'm also having problems.
          >
          > I have a servlet that is creating an HttpSession like this;
          >
          > HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
          >
          > The first time I call this servlet it creates a new session - however in
          > this servlet's
          > page I allow the user to look at what is contained in their session
          > object (their envelope
          > of shopping items). Every time the user invokes the servlet again by
          > selecting their
          > 'envelope' instead of looking in their current session object a new one
          > is created.
          > Therefore I can't maintain state of the servlet containing the envelope
          > items.
          >
          > It sounds like other folks are having this problem as well. My servlet
          > is in a web application.
          > My weblogic.properties file has these entries;
          >
          > weblogic.httpd.session.enable=true
          > weblogic.httpd.session.persistence=false
          > // I've tried it with persistence=true also
          >
          > The problems with sessions occurs on both Netscape and IE although both
          > of them
          > have cookies enabled.
          >
          > Any ideas what the problem is? Is there some setting in
          > weblogic.properties I need to
          > add to get sessions to be persistent between servlet invocations?
          >
          > Thanks,
          >
          > Susan Cline
          > [email protected]
          >