URL-rewriting not working with redirect/

Question

I couldn't find an answer to the following problem in any of the threads:
When navigating between pages via internal forwards, I can safely turn off cookies in my browser; the session id will be written into the requested URL, and so session state is being maintained properly. But when I use <redirect/> in a navigation rule in faces-config.xml to force Faces to redirect the request to the target page via an HTTP redirect, the URL is not being rewritten properly - the session id is missing, and so session state is not being maintained. This results in the loss of all user/session specific data for the current browser session.
I suspect that using <redirect/> results in the Faces Lifecycle being terminated by calling responseComplete() before rendering the view, and that at this point, instead of calling encodeRedirectURL() before redirecting, the URL is being redirected without being rewritten to contain the session id.
My question thus are: Is my suspicion correct? And is there any solution to this problem?

Answer 1

What I forgot to mention: I'm using Sun's RI of JSF running on Tomcat 5.0.19.
Any help is appreciated!
Wolfgang