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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:51:01 -0700
From: Jason Novotny <JDNovotny@lbl.gov>
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To: Stuart Thomson <stuart@swtsoft.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: getSession(false)
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    No- but my lame workaround is to stick something in the session and
test to see if it's null in which case I explicitly set session to null.

e.g.

 HttpSession session = req.getSession(false);

 // Unless a user profile exists, the session is null
 if (session != null) {
   Object user  = session.getAttribute("user");
   if (user == null)
       session = null;
 }


    Jason

Stuart Thomson wrote:

> Did you ever find out what was causing this? I seem to be hitting the
> same problem.
>
> Jason Novotny wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >     I'm using the following snippet in my main servlet:
> >
> > public void service(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
> > throws ServletException, IOException {
> >
> >     HttpSession session = req.getSession(false);
> >      if (session == null) {
> >           System.out.println("session is null");
> >      } else {
> >           System.out.println("session is not null");
> >      }
> >
> > }
> >
> > what I find is that when I go to the servlet, I first see "session is
> > null". Fine by me, and since I passed "false" to getSession, I expect
> > not to have one created. However, when I reload the page, now I get
> > "session is not null". can anyone please explain why getSession(false)
> > actually creates a session, or what I might be doing wrong.
> >
> >     Thanks, Jason
> >
> > --
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