reading SESSIONID header.

[Senthil Kumar]

hi,
can't we read the session id header using like this.
req.getHeader("JSESSIONID"))

[Karthikeyan Varadarajan]

Hi Sendhil,

Why don't you try it yourself by writing a simple servlet/jsp ?

[Christophe Verré]

The session id is not part of Http Headers.

[Vikrant Pandit]

If cookies are being used for session tracking

then you can look for a cookie with the name of JSESSIONID

[Senthil Kumar]

karthi,
i've tried it myself and it returns null.But is JSESSIONID not a part of the
request header.

[Senthil Kumar]

Vivek,
Are you sure a sessionid could be read thru cookies.Bcoz when i run the below code cookie is returned as null.



HttpSession sess = req.getSession(false);
Cookie[] cook = req.getkookies();
if(cook != null){
for(int i=0;i<cook.length;i++)
{
if(cook[i].getName().equals("JSESSIONID'"))
System.out.println(" Session Id
="+cook[i].getValue());
}
}
if(sess == null)
{
System.out.println(" No session exists ...");
sess = req.getSession();
sess.setAttribute("Name","Dravid");
}else
{
System.out.println("Session prevails
.."+sess.getAttribute("Name"));
}
}
}

[Vikrant Pandit]

Hi Senthil,

JSESSIONID cookie does gets created on the client browser . If you are using Mozilla then you can view all the cookies conviniently .

But the Container is stripping it off the request , before the request reaches reaches the Servlet. Kind of censoring you can say


You can use HttpSession.getId() method to view the JSESSIONID

[Vikrant Pandit]

Hi Senthil,

I tried it with my piece of code and I did get the JSESSIONID cookie back.

So the JSESSIONID cookie does get back to servlet after all ... Sorry for the earlier speculative statement