Question

HttpSession Problem in New Window

Asked by: k_murli_krishna

I am facing an issue with HttpSession when trying to open new windows in my web application and trying to acess the session from the new windows and want your expertise in solving this problem.

Here is the scenario:

1. The web application is opened in a browser(IE) window, this creates a new session and the JSP adds some stuff to the session.
2. Down the line in the app using the menu's user invokes a JSP in a new browser window using window.open JavaScript command.
3. This JSP tries to get some information from the session (which was added by the opening JSP), but our requirement is to get the fresh values in new browser window without effecting the existing parent browser window.
4. In a way down, when I refresh the browser in the parent window, I am getting the values which are fetched in the new window, which leads to change of values for parent window.

Is there a way I can aviod this.

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2003-08-19 at 07:33:19ID20713855
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Answers

 

by: Venci75Posted on 2003-08-19 at 07:39:12ID: 9181232

may be you can use different parameters to identify the different widows/data

 

by: TimYatesPosted on 2003-08-19 at 07:43:27ID: 9181271

you can't (I don't think)...

Both browser windows will use the same connection, and therefore have access to the same cookies (and will therefore use the same session)...

This *is* the expected behaviour (as the user is still in one "session"), but it isn't what you want :-(

I have no idea how you can get round this...  I know that if you open up a new browser (not by File->New Window,  or CTRL-N, but by double clicking on the program icon), then you will get a new session for that browser instance...

However, this will not work with Netscape, as Netscape requires a different profile to be created for each session (if you click on the program icon again to load netscape, it just asks you to create a new profile, it will not let two instances use the same profile via this method)

I don't think there is any way for you to get round this...

Just out of interest, why do you want to do this?

You want to force the user to log in twice?

Tim.

 

by: objectsPosted on 2003-08-19 at 16:43:49ID: 9184726

You need to use URL rewriting (instead of cookies) to track the session id.

 

by: k_murli_krishnaPosted on 2003-08-22 at 22:55:40ID: 9208071

Sorry, timyates & others, i do not know anything about this since helping someone else. They say the problem is solved & difficult to get back to you.

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