Since the Servlet 3.1 spec is available and the current version is 4.0, why not consider 3.1 or even 4.0, actually?
-j On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 8:59 AM Jens Deppe <jde...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Hello Charles; thanks very much for bringing this up. > > I vote +1 on this proposal. > > Just to add a bit more details for others: > > The 3.0 Servlet Spec was finalized at the end of 2009. The *earliest* > versions of various containers that supported it are: > > - Jetty 8 (EOL'd since 11/2014) [1] > - Tomcat 7 (Version 6 EOL'd 2017) [2] > - JBoss Web 3.0.0 (version 2.x reached End of Maintenance 11/2017) [3] > - Websphere 8.0 (End of support 4/2018) [4] > - Weblogic 12cR1 (Extended Support until 12/2019) [5] > > The implication is that, of these products, there are *no* currently > supported versions that *do not* support the Servlet 3.0 spec. I believe it > is quite safe for us to indicate that the Session Modules are now only > supported on 3.0 compliant containers. > > --Jens > > [1] - > https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/what-jetty-version.html > [2] - http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html > [3] - https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes > [4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WebSphere_Application_Server > [5] - > > https://www.solstice.com/fwd/survival-guide-to-webspheres-and-weblogics-end-of-life > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 8:11 AM Charles Smith <smith...@macewan.ca> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > The Geode HTTP Session Management Module for AppServers currently states: > > This approach is a generic solution, which is supported by any container > > that implements the Servlet 2.4 specification. > > I would like to suggest that this official support be bumped up to the > > Servlet 3.0 specification. > > > > There are some important cookie security features missing in the ancient > > Servlet 2.4 spec, namely the secure and httpOnly flags. Bumping support > to > > Servlet 3.0 would allow the Geode AppServer session module to inherently > > support these session cookie security features. > > > > I have logged the following Jira issue: > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEODE-7438 > > > > and submitted a pull request that provides the necessary support if the > > Geode community agrees this is a good idea. > > > > And thank you for the excellent Apache Geode project! > > > > -- > > > > Charles Smith > > > > Developer/Analyst > > > > Web Architecture and Development > > MacEwan University > > smith...@macewan.ca > > > > > -- -John john.blum10101 (skype)
