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How to Store JSESSIONID as a Cookie and Disable URL Rewriting (Doc ID 2043892.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 02, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Forms - Version 11.1.1.2.0 and later
Oracle Forms for OCI - Version 12.2.1.4.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

Oracle Forms is a stateful technology.  In other words, in order to maintain the health of a Forms application session, client activity during the session must be retained and synchronized with its corresponding server side companion.  In order to properly match this client and server relationship, a JSESSIONID is generated and retained throughout the life of the running application. In the absence of such a session identifier, the server would not be able to distinguish between communications arriving from its related client and other clients sending requests.  Because Oracle Forms does require statefulness, JSESSIONID is also used for loadbalancing.  The JSESSIONID is used to ensure that loadbalancers properly route communications to and from the correct client/server partners.

By default, Oracle Forms requests a JSESSIONID be generated and maintained in the URL of each exchange between the client and server.  The JSESSIONID is generated by the WebLogic Server (WLS) managed server hosting the Forms Servlet. WLS adds the JSESSIONID to the URL using a method called URL Rewriting.  For some environments, including the JSESSIONID in each URL exchange may not be desirable.

This document will describe how the session's JSESSIONID can be stored as a cookie rather than data in the URL.

This configuration is intended to address issues that are caused as a result of JSESSIONID collisions and similar when using other products in the same browser with Forms.  It is not intended to hide the JSESSIONID, as it will not. 

Forms 12.2.1.0 - 12.2.1.3 support Java Web Start (JWS) and Forms Standalone Launcher (FSAL).  However. enabling cookies is not supported when using Java Web Start or Forms Standalone Launcher in these versions. This limitation has been removed in 12.2.1.4+, so this works fine starting with 12.2.1.4 for Java Web Start (JWS) and Forms Standalone Launcher (FSAL)

 

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