Handling sessions in JForum

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Hello all

In my application, if someone first logs in a cookie is created which then in turn is read by JForum by its SSO mechanism. But if a user visits the JForum part of my application without logging in first, their session will become anonymous. If they then decide to log in and visit the forum again then are still an anonymous user since JForum doesn't re-read their session.

How would one go about to check for cookies everytime a user visits the JForum main page?

Thanks!
[originally posted on jforum.net by bubblare]

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Hi, at a first glance an easy,fast and very dirty way for checking cookie value and do something (ie update session value) is by putting some code in the boolean isSessionValid(UserSession userSession, HttpServletRequest request) method of the SSO implementation in use.

Actually can't think of a cleaner way to do this considering my lean knowledge of the session handling.
[originally posted on jforum.net by Jules]