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1. how to invalidate sessions programmatically?    stackoverflow.com

Hi I know invalidating a session by setting a time-out period in DD-web.xml file but I like to know how to invalidate sessions programmatically?

2. Dwr and script session invalidation    stackoverflow.com

We are using reverse ajax with polling in our DWR 2.0.6 based application. The problem is that when we move away from a page where reverse ajax was set to true, ...

3. Session invalidate is not working because of continuous ajax call    stackoverflow.com

My application sends simple ajax http request to server every 3 minutes. And because ajax request update httpd session info, session timeout is not working, even though I set 30 minute default ...

4. Invalidate a session    stackoverflow.com

I have a jsp servlet based application, with session time out of 30 mins, I want to invalidate the session as soon as a person closes the browser window intentionally or ...

5. session.invalidate() IllegalStateException    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to invalidate a session. When I call:

session.invalidate()
it throws
java.lang.IllegalStateException: getLastAccessedTime: Session already invalidated
Any idea why? I can see the session and it's values just before the invalidate line. ...

6. logout user via RESTful call (invalidate session)    stackoverflow.com

I'm using JBoss to provide a bunch of RESTful services to a Flex-based RIA. Anyway, I managed through some pain to realize a login (using form-based login) but I'm struggeling with ...

7. invalidate session    bytes.com

8. How I check is a session var exist or NOT, so appear appropriate html code, after session.invalidate(); called?    forums.netbeans.org

I'm not an expert on web servers, but I would think that when you invalidate a session, all session properties would also become invalid. If you want to check a session ...

9. session.invalidate()    coderanch.com

A Session can be loosely defined as a connection (connection-less connection as HTTPServlets are HTTP centric) thus renewal or establishing a new session should invlove server and client ports to recommunicate and restablish a connection-less connection (TCP based). Now when the old session is invalidated and a new one is REQUESTED, there could not be an immediate response where that is ...





10. Invalidating a session ?    coderanch.com

I am working on an application where i maintain in a users session a value "myapp.user.LoggedIn" ( boolean ) where true indicates the user is a valid user ( his password and user name have been verified ). This allows me to allow access to web pages only to valid user. I have a "log out" option on each page that ...

11. invalidating a session object.    coderanch.com

12. Invalidating Session Only in IE5.5    coderanch.com

Hi Mohamed, Thanks for ur response.I have checked my browser settings. Allow cookies that are stored on ur computer - enable and as u have said my application works perfect in IE5.0 any other option that need to be checked in IE5.5.actually that was the first thing i checked. thanks and regards, madhavi

13. Setting session to true and then invalidating    coderanch.com

I am still having the problem with the user using the back button and then hitting REFRESH and being able to get back to a secure page once they have logged out. I am thinking that the only solution now is to properly validate when the user logs on and then properly invalidate when the user logs out or leaves the ...

14. Invalidating a session    coderanch.com

I just went thru this same problem building a who's on type program. You can use the onUnload event BUT it will trigger everytime the user changes pages. I actually had a script working that ran them thru a logout servlet with the onUnload event (Javascript) but it turned out to be a major headache so I scrapped it & we ...

15. invalidating sessions    coderanch.com

16. Session doesn't invalidate    coderanch.com

well its better if u could create another page (logout.jsp) and in there include this session.invalidate () to be more clear in ur jsp page have a button for logout and then when user cliks on it then he should be directed to this page which does this invalidation!!! thats the best way , else if u include this session.invalidate in ...





17. Session problem, should I invalidate the session?    coderanch.com

Hello all, I am having a problem with the session subject, can someone help please? In short, I am created a JSP page(start.jsp), which initialize the session. User will input many things in this page, and submit the results to my servlet. Then My servlet process the request, and forward it to the finish.jsp . At last, finish.jsp will do sth ...

19. session.invalidate    coderanch.com

No, the session will not be invalidated when you close the browser. There is no way for the server to know when the browser closes. If the server tries to send a response then an exception will be thrown. You can use JavaScript to determine when the browser window is being closed and then meybe send a message to the backend ...

20. Session Invalidation and Timeout !    coderanch.com

Hi Guys !!! Due to security reasons it is required that in case the user is currently sitting idle for too long (say 5 min's) then the application "should automatically log the user out" Secondly, i am also having problems destroying a session when the user clicks on the "logout" button. Following is the way i have implemented :- In the ...

21. Problem with session.invalidate()    coderanch.com

23. Invalidate one session from another session.    coderanch.com

When a PC closes a browser, the session on the server is still alive. When the same PC opens up another browser I want to invalidate the first session from the new session. This is to prevent many sessions for the same PC on the server. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.

24. Invalidate session under 2 browser window with same web application    coderanch.com

Hi, Currently my Websphere activate "enable cookie" for session management in which the cookie path is set as e.g. "/myapp". But I still have a session management problem in which 2 separate broswer window are open named "A" and "B", both of them are access same URL e.g. "http://www.mydomain.com/myapp", the problem is that when doing some navigation within browser "A", and ...

25. invalidate a session    coderanch.com

26. session is not invalidating    coderanch.com

Hi all, I have made the following configuration in web.xml file but it is not invalidating the session. Or session is not timed out as after 5 minutes if I refresh the page. 5 please help. Also what I want that after session is timed out I want to redirect to login page if possible. Is there any way ...

28. session invalidation    coderanch.com

I am a bit concerned that the use of "destroyed" may give the wrong impression. All of the references that were held by the session are removed but the objects are still there. If the session reference was the only one, that object becomes unreachable and eligible for GC, but if there are other references, nothing happens to the object. If ...

29. invalidate others session    coderanch.com

Hi to all! How can I invalidate a session having it's session id? I want to make a function that allow an administrator user to invalidate the session of others users that are logged in my web application (and so force them to log out). Now I store the session id of all users that are logged in on a db ...

30. Session Invalidate -- Many ways    coderanch.com

Guys: The session can be invalidated by the following ways: 1. calling invalidate() method 2. Allowing the server to time-out the session Also, I wonder if we close the browser (the user was in session and a session id was maintained), and open a new browser with same URL (forget about username/password..it is a clean URL without authentication...like counter servlet): 1. ...

31. Can Container invalidate the session    coderanch.com

32. what does session invalidate means?    coderanch.com

Hi Jigar, if you go through SUN's API spec for HTTPSession, this will say you what i am quoting below: "Invalidates this session and unbinds any objects bound to it.". This means all the objects, set in the Session, will be cleared off. But this doesn't mean that Session is destroyed. Only that Browser doesn't allow the session to be an ...

33. strange experience with trying to invalidate a session    coderanch.com

<%@ page import="business.*;"%> <%! User user=null;%> <% String loggedStatus= (String)session.getAttribute("loggedIn"); if(loggedStatus=="true"){ out.println("Welcome back user"); user = (User)session.getAttribute("user"); } %> //<% if (user == null) { %> <- didnt work. didnt show sign in fields //<% if(loggedStatus!=true)% > <- DID work. did show the siging in fields.

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34. Invalidating all sessions    coderanch.com

See, a reference to all the HttpSession objects is needed to invalidate all the sessions. By keeping those in a Map with session id as the key we are easily able to remove those when the use explicitly invalidated the session or the session times out, in that case sessionDestroyed will be called where we can remove this HttpSession object from ...

35. How to Invalidate Session    coderanch.com

How would I validate a session if user leaves the site or closes the borwser window. To my knowledge there is no way of knowing when a user leaves the site or closes the browser window but there has to be something that I can do to destroy sesions beside reducing timeout time in web.xml. Objects that I am working with ...

36. How to disable back button of browser after session invalidation?    coderanch.com

What i mean is .... after i have invalidated my session(this happens after the user clicks on a link to a jsp "LogOff") ..i donot want the user to go back into the application by just clicking on the back button of the browser. How do i achieve that? Right now ...i use the following script on the page preceding the ...

37. Creating new Session without invalidating current session    coderanch.com

Hi guys, Not sure whether this question has been asked - Is it possible to create a new session without invalidating the current session ? I couldn't find any info regarding this after spending lots of time in spec and search engine. Appreciate if some one gives me a way to overcome this issue. Thanks, Siraj

38. Same SessionID after invalidating Session    coderanch.com

Hi all, I am using WL 8.1 and I am invalidating the session using session.invalidate() in my servlet.After invalidating I am creating one more session in the same servlet.I am printing the sessionId before Invalidation and after Invalidation both are same. Any Clue? log.debug("Before deleting the exixsting sessions"); log.debug("try to print the sessionID to check ------> : "+session.getId()); if(session!=null) { session.invalidate(); ...

40. session.invalidate()    coderanch.com

Hi Everyone, Is it possible to retrieve a variable's value after the session has been invalidated? To give you a better idea of the situation, im using a filter to invalidate the session for a certain case, all's going just fine, now i just have to show a different error message after session invalidation. The earlier message was set simply on ...

41. Invalidation of an existing session    coderanch.com

Is there anyway to retrieve the session object if we know the sessionId ? I am trying a customized implementation of single-sign-out - if a user logs out of one application he should be logged out of another application as well. I do retain the sessionId of the parent application. Using this value, i would need to invalidate the existing session. ...

42. illegalStateException after invalidating Session    coderanch.com

I am trying to invalidate a user's session after the the window has been closed or navigated away from with the browser arrows. The trouble I am running into is that after the session is invalidated, I am not able to create a new session. I am attempting to do this in the following way: 1. HttpSession session = request.getSession(false); 2. ...

43. Invalidating session on browser refresh    coderanch.com

Hi All I wanted to invalidate session on browser refresh...or on opening the same url on other tab of the browser Whit i thought is to declare a static int in action class, and increment it every time the action class gets hit. So if I refresh the browser, that static variable gets initialized to 0, so that if i keep ...

45. How to invalidate user's session forcefully    coderanch.com

The best method to invalidate session or not allowing a user to have more than one session, is to create the context scoped map and store the session id and all the relevant info of user into the map. Whenever the user creates the new session just check whether the user is present in the context map or not.

46. how to invalidate a session from another computer by using ip/MAC sessionid    coderanch.com

Hi Guys, I wanted to invalidate the session of one computer from another computer. For e.g. am logged in to my account in one computer and left that computer without looging out. Now While am going to login agian with another machine it shows that the same user credentials are logged in with another system and please sign out all other ...

47. session invalidation when user in idle state for particular seconds    coderanch.com

Hi, I have question on session invalidation. I design the login page by using jsp. i did the business logic in servlet. I want to invalidate my session after 10 seconds of idle state of user and again i want to redirect to my login page. please help me how to write the code for this task. i write something like ...

48. Handling session timeout and session invalidate differently    coderanch.com

Howdy Ranchers, In my application i am using spring web flow, JSF (richfaces). I have a doubt and that is how can i differentiate between session timeout and a call to session.invalidate(). Because in case of session time out i want to redirect user to a Page A and in case user logs out of application i am invalidating the session ...

49. session.invalidate()    coderanch.com

Hi, I have created one project.There is one login.jsp page.After successful log in i'm setting user name and password as session attribute then redirect to home page.In home page I created a link to logout.jsp where I have called session.invalidate() then redirect to log in page.But after that if i click browser back button it is going back to home page.Is ...

50. session invalidate    dbforums.com

I have a servlet application which uses HttpSession to store session values. I am having problem invalidating the session. After logout i am able to access the application by clicking the browsers back button and refreshing the page. Let me explain the application flow. loginpage.html---> LogonServlet------------------->menuservlet LogonServlet---> (checks for the validity of username and password. If Login succeded directs to menuservlet) ...

51. Invalidate Session    dbforums.com

I am using session.invalidate() on the logout of my application. 1. click the logout button . It redirects to the login page. 2. click the browser back button directs to the login page again. But when i run my application on a different machine 1. click the logout button . it redirects to login page. 2. click the browser back button ...

52. how to invalidate a session    forums.oracle.com

yes my code worked fine in ff....when i enter url http://localhost:8081/jobs/openings.jsp it redirected me to Login page bt not in IE in IE when i exit the browser and enter the url it worked fine... bt how does big sites as timesjobs.com works fine when we logout from our account, and then press back button it is redirected to Login page. ...

53. Why doesn't my session invalidate completely?    forums.oracle.com

54. Invalidating the session on power failure    forums.oracle.com

55. SessionId after session.invalidate() does not change    forums.oracle.com

Well, I think "not a bug" is the glib answer - you're invalidating the session object - there's no requirement that the session cookie be changed if you then establish a new session. On the other hand I can see that it might be undesirable. How about explicitly expiring the JSESSIONID cookie in the response after you invalidate the session? That ...

56. session invalidate    forums.oracle.com

57. Creating new session from existing session without invalidating    forums.oracle.com

I have to create an application (in struts) wherein i have to open a new browser with a different session, on clicking one of the menu of the application. The parent browser should have the different session and the child browser should have a different session. Is it possible to achieve this without invalidating the session of the parent browser?

58. session.invalidate()    forums.oracle.com

hi, thanks for reply. actually i am invalidating a session using this method, my code is as follows if (session != null) { session.invalidate(); RequestDispatcher rd = req.getRequestDispatcher(LOGOUT_URL); rd.forward(req, res); } System.out.println(session); in the last line i am still getting the value of this session. what i am expecting is, it should print null value after being invalidating but i am ...

59. session.invalidate does not function properly please help    forums.oracle.com

Hi , I am using session.invalidate in the logout.jsp page , Even after I logout , I am able to directly access the other jsp pages , by directly entering the url in the browser .(I have a filter that prevents the direct access of the jsp pages properly when the session is null). How do I solve this problem , ...

60. Session invalidation    forums.oracle.com

Hi All, i am having problem with my app which uses Siteminder policy server for Single sign on. I have a login page where the users enter their SSO/pwd and go to the select role page and thereon further the pages acc to the role. I have a logout button where if i click on Logout it goes to the logout.jsp. ...

61. Web logic Session Invalidate    forums.oracle.com

62. Session Invalidation    forums.oracle.com

Hi there.I would suggest you to use ajax to invalidate session after the last accessed time(HttpSession.getLastAccessedTime() ) is over 2 minute.Make a periodical javascript check function that would receive a boolean indicating the last accessed time has over 2 minutes or not from the server.If over 2 minutes , alert to user and then use window.location.href=your_home_page_url to forward to the home ...

63. Cancel Session invalidation    forums.oracle.com

Hi, I have a strange problem. I have an enterprise portal as an Identity Provider where all the other servers ask for an identity and will be served with an SAML Assertion for logging in the actual user. This all works fine but now i want the session on the enterprise portal to stay alive until the user of the session ...