Re: sessions without cookies

Mike,

In your app's conf file set SessionManager.EncodeUrlState to "Always". 
 Setting it to "Auto" may also work for you, but I haven't tried 
that.  Enhydra will then very nicely take care of adapting all your 
URLs to help with session management.

Regards,
Jim
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M. Hockings wrote:
> I have some space on the web that gives me JSP/servlet capability via 
> enhydra.  My web host has provided a way that I can start and stop the 
> "java server" and a directory tree off of my main web root directory 
> that is "java enabled".   This is running Enhydra 3.1 running on 
> BlackDown.org's Java 2 (1.3.1) SDK.
>
> This all works reasonably well and I have used it to good advantage. 
> My one problem that I would like to overcome is that some users don't 
> like the idea of having to enable cookies.  They have read somewhere 
> that cookies are evil and fill up your disk with useless info and let 
> "them" spy on you or some such.  As I understand it Enhydra, like other 
> application servers, use cookies to maintain the session.  Is there a 
> way that I can configure Enhydra (I think that I can change the web.xml) 
> to maintain the state in the URL (i.e., without cookies ?).
>
> If not can you think of any "easy" way to save session state between 
> transactions.  I am doing it now by sending great gobs of data back and 
> forth on each transaction, it would be much faster (and easier for me) 
> to let Enhydra take care of the session.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mike !
>
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