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REPORT #105 Details.

Project: Catalina
Category: Bug Report
SubCategory: New Bug Report
Class: swbug
State: received
Priority: high
Severity: serious
Confidence: public
Environment: 
   Release: current CVS toplevel source
   JVM Release: 1.2
   Operating System: Solaris
   OS Release: 2.7
   Platform: sparc

Synopsis: 
session handling problems with empty "" context path

Description:
session is not correctly maintained by netscape browser to tomcat connection when the context path is empty, this is due to the fact that the session cookie does not contain a path in this case:

PATCH for org.apache.tomcat.connector.HttpResponseBase.java:

*** HttpResponseBase.java.orig	Tue Sep 12 10:52:40 2000
--- HttpResponseBase.java	Tue Sep 12 10:53:17 2000
***************
*** 483,488 ****
--- 483,489 ----
  	    String contextPath = context.getPath();
  	    if ((contextPath != null) && (contextPath.length() > 0))
  		cookie.setPath(contextPath);
+ 	    else cookie.setPath("/");
  	    if (hreq.isSecure())
  		cookie.setSecure(true);
  	    addCookie(cookie);