Comments on: JBoss jsessionid Query Parameter Removal

By: Devon

Devon — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:03:43 +0000

Hmm with cookies disabled you should see JSESSIONID appended to the URL. With or without this code (unless you have your brower’s user agent set to GoogleBot.

By: 8088

8088 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:32:47 +0000

Hi!

How I can test this on my computer, without uploading the code to production?

I disabled the cookies in the browser but I see no url JSESSIIONID in, should not appear?

Thanks and regards.

By: brett cave

brett cave — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:31:11 +0000

A new session will be created if it doesn’t exist at the client. You could also enable this for all user agents, and let the client use a cookie to store the session. This way, sessions can be preserved while never needing a jsessionid.

There is alternative way to implement URL rewrites, which I will post about.

By: Devon

Devon — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:44:21 +0000

@Nes:

Yes it does create a new session for each Google Bot request. These shouldn’t be of a volume or frequency to cause you any trouble. So I really wouldn’t worry about it.

Even if you could disable session creation for Google Bot requests, that would probably break your Seam application, since the Servlet Session is where most of the Seam components are stored.

By: Nes Yarug

Nes Yarug — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:57:27 +0000

Won’t this create a new session for each request? Seems to me there must be a way to turn off the creation of a new session (and subsequent no URL encoded session id) with JBoss. I must admit that I don’t know how to do that yet…

By: Muhammad Zaheer Ahmad

Muhammad Zaheer Ahmad — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:17:18 +0000

Many thanks for your bright idea, i was trying things with “http://randomcoder.com/articles/jsessionid-considered-harmful” but as my session get lost with the removal of id from url, i also get lost.
During search i get your implementation and its working i have not yet tested it with googlebot but i hope it will work and i will configure it with other bots too.
Many thanks for Such a bright and Simple idea.