Re: Session question

Ron,

I think it depends.  If you use URLs for session tracking, i.e. after
logging in your URLs look like:
http://yoursite/somepage?sessionid=MNBS7CXMNXB

then I believe what you describe is true (I can't say for 100% certain
since I've never personally used session IDs in URLs like this).  But far
more common is using cookies for session tracking.  Typically a browser
keeps a record of cookies across all windows - you can't have a cookie with
one value for one browser window, and another value for another browser
window.  That means you only have a single session ID, no matter how many
or in what order you opened up the windows, so all session objects will
always be shared by all windows.

e.g. I open up IE, and immediately hit Ctrl-N before logging into our
website.  So I have two blank browser windows.
In the 2nd one, I enter the URL of a page that can only be accessed once
you're successfully logged into the site.  It of course doesn't let me
access the page because I'm not logged in/have no session ID.
I then log into the 1st window.
Then hit refresh in the 2nd window, and because this window now has the
session ID cookie from the 1st window, I now get the page up fine.

HTH,

Nigel Gay,
Computer Patent Annuities Limited.

java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 11/09/2006 08:16:02 AM:

If I have a session logged into a Java application, and I press CTRL-N to

create a new browser window, will that cause the two windows to be based
on the same session  and cause each one to affect the other (in other
words, they are sharing objects) whereas if I open two new windows, log

in

to the application twice, once from each window, I have two different
sessions and the browser windows don't affect each others data (they each

have their own objects)?   This is from the same machine/computer.

Thanks,

Ron Power
Programmer
Information Services
City Of St. John's, NL
P.O. Box 908
St. John's, NL
A1C 5M2
709-576-8132
rpower@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.stjohns.ca/

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