Preserving session in Java with sendredirect

Question

I am creating a Login Application in JAVA.I am making the presentation in JSP and all the logic (Database connectivity) in Servlet [this is not a right approach I know that]. I check the username Password in Servlet and then create a session variable. and add the session like this

sess.setAttribute("username",oName);

Then I redirect the user to its homepage say student.jsp

response.sendRedirect("student.jsp");

It removes the session variable.I need a way to preserve the session variable and move to student.jsp.I tried to use forwading but that didn't worked out.

RequestDispatcher dispatcher =
                getServletContext()
                    .getRequestDispatcher("/student.jsp");

            if (dispatcher != null) {
                dispatcher.forward(request, response);
            }

It forward request but the Page address doesn't change to student.jsp which is not good. Any help in this regard will be appreciated Thank you

Answer 1

For the redirected request to come back and attach to the same session, it needs a session ID, usually carried in a JSESSIONID (or another name) cookie or in the URL as a parameter.

This cookie or URL parameter should be added by the servlet container and you should not have to add it yourself.

If you do not see the cookie in your browser, and you are not attaching the JSESSIONID to the URL, then it is creating a new session with each request, and not attaching to the same session.

Answer 2

Try to edit your tomcat context.xml file and replace <Context> tag to <Context useHttpOnly="false"> , this helped me.

Answer 3

Use the RequestDispatcher and set your username variable using request.setAttribute(). In this case the dispatcher will not create a new request but the same request will be forwarded using the forward() method.