Hi all,
This has totally baffled me and I desperately need help but I have a link as follows that I have put in a Microsoft word document that calls my struts action to display the specified resource. This was tested to be the same with IE6 or IE7 so its not the browser version causing the issue before anyone ponders it.
( This link will work so you can see what I mean. Copy it into word and then ctrl+click link to open browser - MAKE SURE ALL BROWSERS CLOSED FIRST )
http://bream.oucs.ox.ac.uk:8080/AskClient/process_browseresource.ask selecteditem=f9675f3c-6c26-11db-8bda-df79a00f08cb,0,0The struts process action takes the selecteditem from the form stores it in the session then client redirects using a forward as follows to the correct display action:
<forward name="resourcedetail" path="/display_browseresource.ask" redirect="true" />
The display action is suppose to then extract the selectitem from the session and display its data on the page but as you can see I currently display a demo page.
You will see next to the tabs on the displayed page a res= and sessid= these represent the resourceID of the selecteditem in the session and your session ID. Both of these should show values.
Now click home and notice that res=null and the sessid has changed. YES CHANGED. Somehow the session that was in the actions have changed when the JSP runs and hence there is no longer a resource ID in the session as it's a different one.
It gets even more bizarre now:
Now go back to word and click the link again keeping the browser open.
Notice this time that res=null and sessid remains the same as it was when you selected the home page previously.
I can tell you that behind the scenes the display_browseresource action gets called twice once with the initial session from word and then again with the proper browser session. This is why this time res=null as the JSP is run not with words session but the browsers one instead.
* If you do not use word and paste that url into the browser the session ID remains fixed and fine whether browser open or not.* If you do not use word and paste that url into the XP Run the session ID remains fixed and fine whether browser open or not.
This issue seems related to WORD. I'm totally stuck as because the session changes I have absolutely no way to display my data because the session that holds all the display info is lost when the JSP runs.
Please help Any ideas I'm baffled
Regards
Andy Foster
MS Word & IE , struts and session management
Targe309404
Andy,
I'm afraid this is well beyond the scope of this particular forum, which is more geared toward web site development using HTML, CSS, etc.
Word is discussed on the MS Office forums and JSP is supported by Sun.
In addition, you've done a good job of describing the problem, but you've left out details regarding implementation. For anyone to have a reasonable chance at guessing your problem would likely need specific details about the tools you're working with (e.g. which version of Word, etc) and how you've tried to do this (e.g. code)
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...
-- Lance
pidnas
To update on technology:
* MSWord and Office 2003(only appears in office 2003 when you use word as the editor otherwsie fine)
* Tested under IE6 and IE7 both have the same issue
* Server is Tomcat 5.5
* Basic web app no J2EE involved
Paul Fedory
I got the issue the same as yours ,acfoster.
I found the JsessionID in cookie changes , it was re-setted by my Weblogic cluster server every time when issue occurs.The error message is "session expired!!" I think there is something different in IE7's cookie and session management. The issue never occurs on Opera, IE6, firefox2.
I'd like to communicate with you on this issue. My msn is wangbt5191@hotmail.com