Problem with Sessions, Servlets, Netscape and Solaris

Question

We are experiencing a problem that is confounding and frustrating us (I have
          a felling that it is something exremely minor that we are overlooking).
          Here goes:
          Context:
          The problem only occurs when using a netscape browser against weblogic
          4.51running on our Solaris 7 box (Everything works fine through IE, and
          through both browsers against our development machines which are on NT)
          Problem:
          We have a bunch of JSP pages and servlets that are used togehter throughout
          our site. They both manage session information for the user. What is
          happening is that there is no problem maintaining session information among
          all the JSP pages, but when we hit a servlet that we use to stream graphs
          back to the browser, it gets the session but it has no contents all of a
          sudden. What seems to be even more strange is that the session is not
          tagged as new (by checking isNew()), it is just empty of the contents that
          were placed it by the JSP pages. Again, this is only occurring from
          Netscape browsers against our Solaris server.
          If anyone can provide any help it would be greatly appreciated. I can
          provide more details if need be.
          Jeremy
          

Answer 1

There is a property in the weblogic.properties file that lets you set
          the cookie name. If this isn't set, the port will be appended as part of
          the name. I've had a similar problem switching between http and https
          and losing sessions.
          Carles
          Jeremy wrote:
          >
          > in the link tothe servlet the URL had a :80 in it. This was because the url
          > was generated by a JSP page so that when it was moved from server to server
          > and port to port the code wouldn't have to be changed. Unfortuneately,
          > Netscape sucks and takes this to mean that x.x.x.x and x.x.x.x:80 are
          > different and won't acknowledge the cookie from the JSP pages (x.x.x.x) to
          > the servlet (x.x.x.x:80). Thanks fpr your help.
          >
          > Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > news:[email protected]...
          > > my mistake, it appears to always happen on port 80 regardless of the
          > server
          > > it is on.
          > >
          > > Jeff Martin <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > > news:[email protected]...
          > > > It really sounds like your servlet is making a new session, even though
          > > > isNew() doesn't say so. What you might try to do is use session.getId()
          > > > to print out the session ID from your jsp pages as well as your servlets
          > > > to determine if it really is a new session.
          > > >
          > > > Do your servlets and JSPs both use the same scheme (http or https) or
          > > > cookie.setSecure()? Do your cookies use domains or paths in either
          > > > servlets or jsps (cookies can be restricted to certain subdirectories
          > > > which might be different between jsps and servlets)? Are you testing
          > > > through a proxy or firewall, or does either browser have different proxy
          > > > settings than the others?
          > > >
          > > > Jeff
          > > >
          > > > Jeremy wrote:
          > > > >
          > > > > We are experiencing a problem that is confounding and frustrating us
          > (I
          > > have
          > > > > a felling that it is something exremely minor that we are
          > overlooking).
          > > > > Here goes:
          > > > >
          > > > > Context:
          > > > > The problem only occurs when using a netscape browser against weblogic
          > > > > 4.51running on our Solaris 7 box (Everything works fine through IE,
          > and
          > > > > through both browsers against our development machines which are on
          > NT)
          > > > >
          > > > > Problem:
          > > > > We have a bunch of JSP pages and servlets that are used togehter
          > > throughout
          > > > > our site. They both manage session information for the user. What is
          > > > > happening is that there is no problem maintaining session information
          > > among
          > > > > all the JSP pages, but when we hit a servlet that we use to stream
          > > graphs
          > > > > back to the browser, it gets the session but it has no contents all of
          > a
          > > > > sudden. What seems to be even more strange is that the session is not
          > > > > tagged as new (by checking isNew()), it is just empty of the contents
          > > that
          > > > > were placed it by the JSP pages. Again, this is only occurring from
          > > > > Netscape browsers against our Solaris server.
          > > > >
          > > > > If anyone can provide any help it would be greatly appreciated. I can
          > > > > provide more details if need be.
          > > > >
          > > > > Jeremy
          > >
          > >