Session Management in Netscape Browser

[Ruchik Bhatt]

Hi,

I have a web application (JSP, Servlets) running on Tomcat 4.2, Linux 9, jdk 1.4.
When I browse the application using IE 5.5/6.0 the session is properly carried throughout the application but when I browse using Netscape 4.7 the session variables are not carried.
Any suggestion / comments to solve the problem ?

Thank you in advance

[Jeroen Wenting]

Is your Notscape configured to reject cookies maybe?
If so the session information (which is carried in a cookie) is lost between requests.

A question: is there a hard requirement to support Notscape? If not, drop it.
From some research I did last year when working for an e-commerce site we discovered that the percentage of Notscape 4 users was well under 1% and dropping. That includes ALL minor versions, which are not even compatible with each other so you need to write code for all of them.

[Ruchik Bhatt]

Hi,

Thanx for the suggestion.
Netscape is set to accept all the cookies and I do require netscape support.

[Jeroen Wenting]

Are you maybe trying to access the same session through different windows generated with the New Window menuoption (Ctrl-N)?
This works as expected in IE where all windows in the same process share a session, in Notscape it doesn't work and all windows will get different sessions (this is a known problem with Notscape).

[Bear Bibeault]

Netscape is set to accept all the cookies and I do require netscape support.

But Netscape 4.7? Are you also required to support Internet Explorer 2? You do realize that Netscape 8 is imminent?

NN 4.7 is seriously seriously outdated and whoever is imposing this requirement on you needs a serious reality check.