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[jsr340-experts] Re: SERVLET_SPEC-13: Make session fixation protection part of the spec

From: Remy Maucherat <rmaucher_at_redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:46:43 +0100

On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 17:36 -0800, Shing Wai Chan wrote:
> I am looking at http://java.net/jira/browse/SERVLET_SPEC-13
> ("SERVLET_SPEC-13: Make session fixation protection part of the spec")

As the container would use this automagically, it would break existing
applications (the session id is used often as a key).

The new changeSessionId API method, if added, must be added on the
request object (since the request has fields about the session that must
be updated, and a new cookie must be added). So -1 for adding it on
HttpSession, I think this won't work well.

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Remy Maucherat <rmaucher_at_redhat.com>
Red Hat Inc