Re: configuration setting to disable URL sessions?

2006-09-11 Thread Chetan Sabnis
Or, you could write a filter that checks request.isRequestedSessionIdFromURL() and invalidates the session if it is. btw, if there is a cookie set, that overrides anything provided in the url. eric This is what I ended up doing. Thanks. -

Re: configuration setting to disable URL sessions?

2006-09-08 Thread Chetan Sabnis
ncludes the jsessionid in the new url. They then bookmark the page (session id included) and end up reusing it. It is possible (though unlikely) to have two users conflict on a single session id this way, so I eliminate the possibility entirely. -marc --- Chetan Sabnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

configuration setting to disable URL sessions?

2006-09-07 Thread Chetan Sabnis
Is there a way to disable the Tomcat server (5.5) from accepting sessions that are sent in the URL using jsessionid? This would be useful in preventing certain session fixation attacks. Basically, I would want sessions to be accepted only if they are sent using a cookie. Specifically, I am conc