Hi,
I am working on a JSP based website, where I am facing problem with sessions. The user is asked to login by providing her id and password. If found correct, a bean is created and populated with all her details and placed in session scope. I plan to use the information stored in the bean on other related pages until she logs out.
<jsp:useBean id="validUser" scope="session" class="UserBean" >
<c:set target="${validUser}" property="userId" value="${fn:trim(dbValues.UserId)}" />
<c:set target="${validUser}" property="userName" value="${fn:trim(dbValues.UserName)}" />
......
</jsp:useBean>
<c:redirect url="userHome.jsp" />
The user is presented her homepage - 'userHome.jsp', where she can find various links, like 'Update Profile', 'Pay Registration Fees', 'Book Room' etc. The information stored in the bean is available on 'userHome.jsp'page.
<A HREF='userHome.jsp'>Home</A>
<A HREF='editPersonal.jsp'>Update Profile</A>
<A HREF='registrationFee.jsp'>Pay Registration Fees</A>
<A HREF='bookRoom.jsp'>Book Room</A>
<A HREF='logout.jsp'>Logout</A>
The problems are:
1. Whenever user clicks on any of the above mentioned links and moves to any page, the bean comes out as null.
<%-- Verify that the user is logged in --%>
<c:if test="${validUser == null}">
<jsp:forward page="loginForm.jsp">
<jsp:param name="origURL" value="${pageContext.request.requestURL}" />
<jsp:param name="errorMsg" value="You must be logged in to access this site." />
</jsp:forward>
</c:if>
2. The URL shows an additional jsessionid, which my client doesn't want to see.
3. On every click on any link, the value of this jsessionid changes.
What I presume, when I am clicking on different links, my session changes, and so I am seeing a different jsessionid. And since session is changing, therefore the bean is not available in a different session.
All this works fine with localhost, problem comes into picture, when I upload my pages to the server.
Puzzled, can anyone help, where am I going wrong? Let me add here, I am new to JSP and hence don't have much resources with me.