Disabling Cookies, created problem in web application??

Hai,

I am working on web application, I have never created any cookies or used.
when I disabled the cookies at my FireFox browser, the application always redirects to login page.
In login page I am setting SessionID to session attribute when the userid and password is correct. And when ever the user navigates through the application I am checking the sessionID for matching or not. IF not then redirects the request to login page.

If I enables the cookies at my firefox browser, then application goes fine.
Then I have viewed the cookies present in the browser, there i have found

Name:JSESSIONID
content:547A0010A6103BF1FD4B9BBA8652277F
host: localhost
path: mywebappName

If any user disables the cookies then my application will not work, suggest me how to solve this problem with sutible examples

Regards
Madhu Kumar

By default, the sessions are handled only through cookies. You need to use URL rewriting if you want sessions to work when cookies are disabled. That means all of the href links, window.open()s and form actions need to be generated through response.encodeUrl() and the redirect url strings need to be generated through response.encodeRedirectUrl(). If you like scriptless jsps, I think the JSTL tag <c:url> automatically handles URL rewriting.

Note that if you use URL rewriting and the user logs in and then manually types in the URL for another page, this second page will not be aware of the session. Only page changes through rewritten URLs will keep session information.

-Yuriy
[ August 19, 2005: Message edited by: Yuriy Zilbergleyt ]

Thank u Yuriy,
But till now i have not used JSTL, can u explain the JSTL tag <c:url> that automatically handles URL rewriting. with an examples.

Regards
Madhu Kumar

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Originally posted by Madhu Kaparapu:
Thank u Yuriy,
But till now i have not used JSTL, can u explain the JSTL tag <c:url> that automatically handles URL rewriting. with an examples.

Regards
Madhu Kumar

You can download the specification here:
http://www.jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr052/index2.html

If you're going to use them, you'll want that PDF right on your desktop.