Re: J2EE - How to share tomcat sessions across multiple IE windows
Adam Lipscombe wrote:
My app spawns another window to display help, via the window.open()
javascript call.
The new window does not share the same session as the original, the
session ID is always different.
Occasionally the ID of the new window is that of a session that has
expired so the help does not display.
I think his behaviour is IE specific, I found a couple of (non tomcat)
explanations here:
http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general/how-do-i-manage-a-session-across-multiple-windows.html.
http://de3.php.net/session-start
In the latter it says:
"The problem is that IE doesn't always use the same IE process to host a
new pop-up window - it chooses one (using some mysterious strategy) from
the pool of running IE processes! Since session information (cookies) is
not preserved across processes, the pop-up may loose the session (and
probably redirect the user to your log-in page.)"
Does anyone know how to make the new window use the same session as the
original window?
Or at least use a brand-new session rather than a recycled old one?
I will not call it off topic, but you may want to broaden your search,
because this is a pure client side issue and is independent on whether
you use J2EE or ASP.NET or PHP or something else.
Arne
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