Does WebSphere append data to it's Session ID?

[lozina]

Some web servers append server related data to session ID's as a convenient way to keep track of what server that session belongs to and what-not. For example, if you do getId() on a HttpSession in a webapp hosted by WebLogic, you get a string that has several tokens delimmited by a exclamation mark ('!'). The first token is the actual session ID, the second is a hash to identify the primary server for that session, the third token is a hash to identify the secondary server, and finally a fourth token- err I don't remember what it's for.

But anyway, does WebSphere do anything similar to this? If so, what is the format? Thanks!

 

[kamper]

Just out of curiousity, why are you trying to reverse engineer session ids? If the vendors meant for developpers to do that they would provide documentation.

 

[znaps]

I've used Websphere and don't remember it doing that with session IDs, but I've never done any sort of clustering.

You'd probably get an answer pretty quickly on the webshere newsgroups.