Question

In Tomcat Manager on the Page “Sessions Administration”, there is a column Guessed User name. How can i set this column from within my Wicket Session?

Note: I have successfully overridden AuthenticatedWebSession.toString() and this value is shown on the sessin details page.

I have tried to set AuthenticatedWebSession.userName as recommended here.

Answer 1

Please mind that Wicket session is a different beast than actual servlet session. Creating a “userName” property in wicket session will not work.

You need to access the raw HttpServletRequest from wicket to set the value properly: this is how you do it.

Add this code to your WebPages:

HttpServletRequest request = getWebRequestCycle().getWebRequest().getHttpServletRequest();
request.getSession().setAttribute("userName", userName);