JBoss 7.0.1 running without jsessionid in the URL is not working

Question

Because of some security reasons I deceided to disable session tracking by jsessionid in URL. Before I changed my web.xml to the one below, I had on the first time I visited the page a jsessionid in the url, after clicking the first link, it never appeared again.

My web.xml looks like

   <session-config>
      <session-timeout>10</session-timeout>
      <cookie-config>
         <secure>true</secure>
      </cookie-config>
      <tracking-mode>COOKIE</tracking-mode>
   </session-config>

Now I have the jsessionid in the URL, if I click another link on the page it never disappears. It changes on every click.

If I try to invoke a JSF action, I get an javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException but the managed bean is @SessionScoped.

This is my dependency tree:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'dependency'.
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[INFO] Building Java EE 6 webapp project
[INFO]    task-segment: [dependency:tree]
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[INFO] [dependency:tree {execution: default-cli}]
[INFO] de.project:demoapp:war:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] +- javax.enterprise:cdi-api:jar:1.0-SP4:provided
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.spec.javax.interceptor:jboss-interceptors-api_1.1_spec:jar:1.0.0.Final:provided (version managed from 1.0.0.Beta1)
[INFO] |  \- javax.inject:javax.inject:jar:1:provided
[INFO] +- org.jboss.spec.javax.annotation:jboss-annotations-api_1.1_spec:jar:1.0.0.Final:provided
[INFO] +- org.jboss.spec.javax.ws.rs:jboss-jaxrs-api_1.1_spec:jar:1.0.0.Final:provided
[INFO] +- org.hibernate.javax.persistence:hibernate-jpa-2.0-api:jar:1.0.1.Final:provided
[INFO] +- org.jboss.spec.javax.ejb:jboss-ejb-api_3.1_spec:jar:1.0.1.Final:provided
[INFO] +- org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:jar:4.2.0.Final:provided
[INFO] |  \- javax.validation:validation-api:jar:1.0.0.GA:provided
[INFO] +- org.hibernate:hibernate-jpamodelgen:jar:1.1.1.Final:provided
[INFO] +- junit:junit:jar:4.10:test
[INFO] |  \- org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:jar:1.1:test
[INFO] +- org.jboss.arquillian.junit:arquillian-junit-container:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.junit:arquillian-junit-core:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.test:arquillian-test-api:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  |  \- org.jboss.arquillian.core:arquillian-core-api:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.test:arquillian-test-spi:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.core:arquillian-core-spi:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  |  \- org.jboss.shrinkwrap:shrinkwrap-api:jar:1.0.0-beta-5:test
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.container:arquillian-container-test-api:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.container:arquillian-container-test-spi:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.core:arquillian-core-impl-base:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.test:arquillian-test-impl-base:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.container:arquillian-container-impl-base:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.config:arquillian-config-api:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  |  \- org.jboss.arquillian.config:arquillian-config-impl-base:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  |     \- org.jboss.shrinkwrap.descriptors:shrinkwrap-descriptors-spi:jar:1.1.0-alpha-2:test
[INFO] |  +- org.jboss.arquillian.container:arquillian-container-test-impl-base:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  \- org.jboss.shrinkwrap:shrinkwrap-impl-base:jar:1.0.0-beta-5:test
[INFO] |     \- org.jboss.shrinkwrap:shrinkwrap-spi:jar:1.0.0-beta-5:test
[INFO] +- org.jboss.arquillian.protocol:arquillian-protocol-servlet:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |  \- org.jboss.arquillian.container:arquillian-container-spi:jar:1.0.0.CR4:test
[INFO] |     \- org.jboss.shrinkwrap.descriptors:shrinkwrap-descriptors-api:jar:1.1.0-alpha-2:test
[INFO] +- javax.mail:mail:jar:1.4.4:compile
[INFO] |  \- javax.activation:activation:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO] +- javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:jar:3.0.1:provided
[INFO] +- org.owasp.esapi:esapi:jar:2.0.1:compile
[INFO] |  +- commons-configuration:commons-configuration:jar:1.5:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- commons-lang:commons-lang:jar:2.3:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  +- logkit:logkit:jar:1.0.1:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  \- avalon-framework:avalon-framework:jar:4.1.3:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- commons-digester:commons-digester:jar:1.8:compile
[INFO] |  |     \- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:jar:1.7.0:compile
[INFO] |  +- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils-core:jar:1.7.0:compile
[INFO] |  +- commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:jar:1.2:compile
[INFO] |  +- commons-collections:commons-collections:jar:3.2:compile
[INFO] |  +- xom:xom:jar:1.1:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- xerces:xmlParserAPIs:jar:2.6.2:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- xerces:xercesImpl:jar:2.6.2:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- xalan:xalan:jar:2.7.0:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  \- xml-apis:xml-apis:jar:1.0.b2:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- jaxen:jaxen:jar:1.1-beta-8:compile
[INFO] |  |     +- dom4j:dom4j:jar:1.6.1:compile
[INFO] |  |     \- jdom:jdom:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.beanshell:bsh-core:jar:2.0b4:compile
[INFO] |  \- org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy:jar:1.4.3:compile
[INFO] |     +- org.apache.xmlgraphics:batik-css:jar:1.7:compile
[INFO] |     |  +- org.apache.xmlgraphics:batik-ext:jar:1.7:compile
[INFO] |     |  +- org.apache.xmlgraphics:batik-util:jar:1.7:compile
[INFO] |     |  \- xml-apis:xml-apis-ext:jar:1.3.04:compile
[INFO] |     +- net.sourceforge.nekohtml:nekohtml:jar:1.9.12:compile
[INFO] |     \- commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:jar:3.1:compile
[INFO] |        \- commons-codec:commons-codec:jar:1.2:compile
[INFO] +- com.sun.faces:jsf-api:jar:2.1.7:compile
[INFO] \- joda-time:joda-time:jar:1.6:compile
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 5 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Mar 19 12:55:23 CET 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 31M/342M
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EDIT: it looks like it's working without the

<cookie-config>
   <secure>true</secure>
</cookie-config>

the cookies is also in secure mode by default
is this normal? do i need this cookie config stuff not anymore? thanks!

Answer 1

are you using https ssl or port 80 http ? if using http then remove the secure cookie as secure means over ssl

Looks like web server realizes its not getting cookie and so making a new session every time. if you disable secure cookie (means make it false) then it should work.

it it does not make sure the browser is accepting cookies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVEo7wug2ks shows you how to see cookies (do not delete unless testing)