mod_rewrite is screwing up my session

[carpeliam]

I'm using Apache Tomcat and mod_webapp in addition to Apache HTTPD. To get rid of the extra space at the end of the URL, I'm using mod_rewrite. (I'm also using Apache Cocoon with Tomcat.. but that's not really an issue.)

So let's say that with a directory of localhost/cocoon/cms/, I want localhost/cms/. (I'm using the PT "pass-through" flag so it's invisible to the user.)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog "E:/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 3
RewriteRule /cms/(.*) /cocoon/cms/$1 [PT]

This works, but the problem is that Tomcat sessions aren't working when I use mod_rewrite.

Here's a list of the parameters supplied when I don't use mod_rewrite:

PARAM: 'cookie' VALUES: '[JSESSIONID=A897E11152D430961782D5C9D9E67211; CMSUSER=mMsjah1coqlTGONdauaj1HrXi%2Fi2nT0lSZBixdwP%2BwQ%3D]'
PARAM: 'connection' VALUES: '[Keep-Alive]'
PARAM: 'accept-encoding' VALUES: '[gzip, deflate]'
PARAM: 'referer' VALUES: '[[URL unfurl="true"]http://localhost/cocoon/cms/info/mission.html[/URL]]'
PARAM: 'accept' VALUES: '[image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*]'
PARAM: 'accept-language' VALUES: '[en-us]'
PARAM: 'user-agent' VALUES: '[Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)]'
PARAM: 'host' VALUES: '[localhost]'

And here's what happens when I use mod_rewrite:

PARAM: 'cookie' VALUES: '[CMSUSER=mMsjah1coqlTGONdauaj1HrXi%2Fi2nT0lSZBixdwP%2BwQ%3D]'
PARAM: 'connection' VALUES: '[Keep-Alive]'
PARAM: 'accept-encoding' VALUES: '[gzip, deflate]'
PARAM: 'referer' VALUES: '[[URL unfurl="true"]http://localhost/cms/news/news_story_1.html[/URL]]'
PARAM: 'accept' VALUES: '[*/*]'
PARAM: 'accept-language' VALUES: '[en-us]'
PARAM: 'user-agent' VALUES: '[Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)]'
PARAM: 'host' VALUES: '[localhost]'

As you can tell, there's no JSESSIONID when I use mod_rewrite.. also, the 'accept' parameter is different.

If anybody can help me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks Liam Morley
lmorley@gdc.wpi.edu
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