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Jetty/Howto/SessionIds

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Revision as of 05:42, 27 September 2010 by Amertum.gmail.com (Talk | contribs) (fix incorrect param name to change jsessionid url-rewriting)



Introduction

The following configuration can be applied to modify the session characteristics of a web application:


Steps

Init Parameters

Context Parameter Name Default Value Description
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionCookie JSESSIONID Session cookie name.efaults to JSESSIONID, but can be set for a particular webapp with this context param.
org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.SessionIdPathParameterName jsessionid Session URL parameter name. Defaults to jsessionid, but can be set for a particular webapp with this context param. Set to "none" to disable URL rewriting.
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionDomain - Session Domain. If this property is set as a ServletContext param, then it is used as the domain for session cookies.If it is not set, then no domain is specified for the session cookie.
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionPath - Session Path. If this property is set as a ServletContext param, then it is used as the path for the session cookie. If it is not set, then the context path is used as the path for the cookie.
org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.MaxAge -1 Session Max Age. If this property is set as a ServletContext param, then it is used as the max age for the session cookie. If it is not set, then a max age of -1 is used.

Example

The above can either be set as <context-param>s in a web application's WEB-INF/web.xml file like so:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<web-app
  xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
  version="2.5">
  ...
  <context-param>
    <param-name>org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionCookie</param-name>
    <param-value>XSESSIONID</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionURL</param-name>
    <param-value>xsessionid</param-value>
  </context-param>
  ...
</web-app>

or, they can be set in a Jetty context xml file that configures a web application:

<Configure class="org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
  <Set name="contextPath">/test</Set>
  <Set name="war"><SystemProperty name="jetty.home" default="."/>/webapps/test</Set>
 
  ...
 
  <Set name="initParams">
    <Map>
      <Entry>
        <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionCookie</Item>
        <Item>XSESSIONID</Item>
      </Entry>
      <Entry>
        <Item>org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionURL</Item>
        <Item>xsessionid</Item>
      </Entry>
    </Map>
  </Set>
</Configure>




Additional Resources

For more information, please see the Session Clustering tutorial.

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