Rproblem: New Session created on each new JSP

[Padraig Cooney <pa...@easiwebmaker.ie>]

Dear friends, 

I have problem in a JSP app run on tomcat3.3 whereby a session does not exist for more than one page. The problem is encountered whenever I try to use a session variable created in a previous JSP. I have done my system.outs and a new session is created from page to page instead of using the existing session. This is what I posted on one of the forums: 
My problem is that I can't maintain a session over more than one page. I create a session in validateLogin.jsp: 

isAdmin = customerProfileBean.isUserAdmin(username); 

session.setAttribute("userType",isAdmin);
System.out.println("User Type is "+isAdmin+" in validateLogin");
session.setAttribute("user",username);
System.out.println("Max Inactive Interval is: "+session.getMaxInactiveInterval());
System.out.println("Session.isNew() is "+session.isNew()+" in validate");
System.out.println("Session.getId() is "+session.getId()+" in validate");

Then I re-direct to myLucidity.jsp, and try to access the session: 

String user = null;
user = (String)session.getAttribute("user");
System.out.println("User is "+user+" in myLucidity");
System.out.println("Session.isNew() is "+session.isNew()+" in myLucidity");
System.out.println("Session.getId() is "+session.getId()+" in myLucidity"); 

session.isNew() is "true" in both cases, and session.getId() returns different values. In other words, a new session is created in myLucidity.jsp rather than using the session started in validateLogin.jsp, as it should.

I have checked the max inactive interval for the session and it's 1800, so that's not the problem. 

My browser is set to "Accept All Cookies", so they're stored locally. In server.xml, I have: 
<SessionId cookiesFirst="true" noCookies="false" /> 
and 
<SimpleSessionStore maxActiveSessions="-1" /> 
Can anyone help?



Regards,

Padraig Cooney.

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