On 03/11/2015 11:36, Roel Storms wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I was wondering if anything special is done with cookie based session
> management in order for it to deal with HTTP pipelining.

No.

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> There are of course different scenario's that can be drawn but is there a
> way tomcat deals with this problem?

No.

> According to wikipedia, servers can
> easily deal with the issue of pipelining but I believe that is not the case
> when sessions are involved.

Tomcat supports pipelining but makes no assumptions about sessions. Keep
in mind that a proxy may be pipelining requests from different clients.

> Is this scenario realistic?

Yes.

> Is it possible that two sessions exist where
> the information in the first session will be lost?

Yes, one of those sessions is going to be lost.

> I know by default most browsers turn pipelining off because of a lot of
> proxies and servers not supporting it. Is this one of the reasons?

Supporting pipelining is a spec requirement so I'd be surprised if it
wasn't supported.

Session handling is certainly one reason not to use pipelining.

Mark

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