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I am using Tomcat 6.0, JSF2.0.2
I realized that randomly HttpServletRequest getSession method, returns null.
I could the session randomly be null?
How can I debug who sets the session to null?
I checked it with request.getSession(true) and it returns null. How could it be that it cannot create a session?
First, this problem is not related to JSF since it’s “just” a component based MVC framework. This problem is more related to the servletcontainer in question, which is in this case thus Tomcat.
As to the problem: I’ve seen this before in specific portal(-like) applications. Tomcat has some builtin phishing prevention which would return a
nullsession when the given cookie ID and path doesn’t match with any cookie in Tomcat’s session manager. More than often this problem can be solved by settingemptySessionPathattribute of the HTTP Connector<Connector>inconf/server.xmltotrue.