[opencms-dev] OpenCms 6 JSESSIONID cookie

[Jason Trump]

Hi Pere,

The JSESSIONID is set by the servlet/JSP container (probably tomcat for
you?), not by opencms.  You are correct in that it identifies the
session for subsequent requests from the client.

Unfortunately, I don't know how the setting of the session cookie could
affect character encoding.  Here are a few guesses:  Are documents in
that folder using a different template than other documents?  For
example, maybe you have a JSP template somewhere that is explicitly
setting encoding like

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=FOOBAR" %>

Or, do you have any page directives that disable sessions in your JSPs,
like

<%@ page session="false" %>

though I don't think that this should prevent the session cookie from
being set.  Perhaps somebody else on the list has a better idea?  What
type of pages are in your 'bad' folder -- JSPs, XML content...?

-jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-
> bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Pere Torrodellas
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 7:22 AM
> To: OpenCms
> Subject: [opencms-dev] OpenCms 6 JSESSIONID cookie
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am debugging a strange character encoding problem in our OpenCms
> application, and so far the only difference I can see between correct
and
> incorrect encoding is the fact that OpenCms has sent or not a cookie:
> 
> Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=B50B9243698545E3CB3BEF9EF4F2AB39; Path=/socweb
> 
> I assume that this is the cookie that identifyes the session, but
> strangely
> enough, OpenCms doesn't send it if the pages come from a particular
> folder.
> 
> After this cookie has been set, the accented vowels entered in forms
are
> encodede OK regardless of the page or folder, but not before. By the
way,
> everything in the application (as far as I'm aware) uses UTF-8.
> 
> I can't see the difference in properties, etc, between the folder that
> does
> trigger the cookie and the folder that doesn't. Can someone please
explain
> when and when not does OpenCms send this cookie?
> 
> And, how can this influence the character encoding in the navigator?
> 
> Thanks for any hint,
> 
> Pere
> 
> 
> 
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