Lose session when I launch new window containing activex component

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When I launch a new window which contains a crystal reports web based report I lose the session and have to re-login to my tomcat web application. The viewer that is launched for the report is an activex component, I don't know if this has something to do with it. Initially I was just lauching the new window from an applet using the appletContext.showDocumnet(URL,"_blank&quot. I then tried launching it using a jsp page. I pass the report url (created by parameters set in applet) to report.jsp. when report.jsp I test the session and it is intact but once the report is fully loaded in the window the session is now destroyed for the initial application. What could be causing this behaviour? Here is the code I use to launch the report in the jsp page:

<%
System.out.println(&quot;session: &quot; + session.getId());
System.out.println(&quot;report parameters: &quot; + request.getParameter(&quot;report_parameters&quot);
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL(getReportURL(request)));
%>

I'm runnin Tomcat 5 currently but I've duplicated this with versions of Tomcat 4. The report that is lauched hits an IIS server on a different port (tomcat is on 8080, IIS is on 80) which then loads the activex component and requests the report from the Crystal Enterprise Server.

I'm completely stumped and really need to get this problem fixed , or at least a workaround for the time being, ASAP. Thanks for any help!!