loosing session variables between JSP applications

[Smith5646]

I am loosing session variables between JSP applications running on Tomcat 5.0.18.

The first app is a login application which defines a menu for the user. It's path is 127.0.0.1:8080/Security. When the user logs in successfully, I set a session variable session.setAttribute("UserID", "Smith5646" If I check this variable later in another JSP page in the /Security directory using session.getAttribute("UserID&quot it returns Smith5646 as expected.

When the menu is displayed from /Security and I click a link that goes to another path such as 127.0.0.1:8080/MyTestApp, when I do a session.getAttribute("UserID&quot it returns null.

Are session variables path specific? I thought they were global to the browser session but this does not appear to be the case. Is there a tomcat config setting I've missed or something? If not, is there a way around this so I can pass session variables between applications?

 

[patrick99]

From your information provided, there are TWO separate web applications called "Security" and "MyTestApp". Session variables won't be shared among applications.

Try to create a master directory (e.g. App) to include your two directories:
/App/Security
/App/MyTestApp

 

[jcamp]

i'm having the same problem but i'm not using two different web apps. for some reason when i use the session.setAttribute method in one jsp, no other jsp's can see it.

help !!!!!!