encodeURL and cookie

[Artemesia Lakener]

If I use "encodeURL" the server will first check if the browser supports cookie. if yes, the URL remains unchanged; otherwise a "jsessionid=.." will be appended to the URL. I know this well.

Now the question is --

1. How can I let server NOT to use cookie (no matter cookie is ON or OFF on the browser) ? Can I do things like appending a jseesionid by myself

url = originalURL + "/jsessionid=" + session.getID();

Does this force the server NOT to get jsessionid from cookie (even the cookie is supported by client browser) ?

2. if I keep using "encodeURL", is there a way to "configure" the server to let server NOT use cookie (i.e never store jsessionid in cookie, instead put in URL)? I knnow by theory if you use "encodeURL" server first checks cookie and goes from there. I just wanna to see if developer can interfere with that.

thanks

[Yuriy Zilbergleyt]

I don't know if you can disable cookies from the server, but I know that you can't append the URL encoded portion yourself because what that looks like is container-dependant (at least according to HFS&J). If you really wanted to you could disable sessions all together and implement your own sessions using a sessionId request parameter and the ServletContext. This wouldn't work if your web-app is distributed though, unless you use EJBs or something for session data (uggghhhh!).

-Yuriy
[ July 11, 2005: Message edited by: Yuriy Zilbergleyt ]