[users@httpd] URL rewriting and cookie paths (rewritable?); loss of session information

[og...@yahoo.com]

Hello,

I'm using httpd 1.3.34 with mod_rewrite and am having problems with
cookies.

- Before URL rewriting:
My application generates a cookie with a path (e.g. /myapp).  This
works fine when there is no URL rewriting, and when all URLs to my
application have /myapp in the path (e.g. http://..../myapp/page1 or
http://..../myapp/page2).

- After URL rewriting:
I am rewriting URLs from /myapp/User?id=johnny (real URL) to
/user/johnny (what users see in the browser).
When a URL is rewritten, there is no '/myapp' any more, and my cookies
don't get sent (from browser to the server), since the paths don't
match.  Since these cookies hold my session information (think
jsessionid=34tgy74848 type of stuff), my session information gets lost.


I think the problem would be solved if mod_rewriting also rewrote
Cookie paths.  If this is the original cookie (Set-Cookie HTTP response
header):

  Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=1ftmqr67vvnld;Path=/myapp

I would love to be able to tell mod_rewrite to rewrite '/myapp'
_cookie_ path to, say, just '/'.


- Questions:
Is this doable (in 1.3.*)?
Is this doable in 2.0.*?

Any help would be veeeeeeeeeeeeeery appreciated.

Thank you,
Otis

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