I have a home.jsf that invoke a login servlet that look into database and query out the user object given the username and password. Then I save that user object into session under attribute name user, like this request.getSession().setAttribute("user", user);
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
String username = request.getParameter("username");
String password = request.getParameter("password");
boolean remember = "true".equals(request.getParameter("remember"));
//Hashing the password with SHA-256 algorithms
password = hash(password);
HttpSession s = request.getSession(false);
if (s != null) {
logger.log(Level.INFO, "Id: {0}", s.getId());
}
User user = scholarEJB.findUserByUserNamePassword(username, password);
try {
if (user != null) {
request.login(username, password);
request.getSession().setAttribute("user", user);
if (remember) {
String uuid = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
UserCookie uc = new UserCookie(uuid, user.getId());
scholarEJB.persist(uc);
Helper.addCookie(response, Helper.COOKIE_NAME, uuid, Helper.COOKIE_AGE);
}else{
//If the user decide they dont want us to remember them
//anymore, delete any cookie associate with this user off
//the table
scholarEJB.deleteUserCookie(user.getId());
Helper.removeCookie(response, Helper.COOKIE_NAME);
}
response.sendRedirect("CentralFeed.jsf");
}else{
response.sendRedirect("LoginError.jsf");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
response.sendRedirect("LoginError.jsf");
}
Then I have a Filer that map to all my secured page, that will try to retrieve the user object from the session, otherwise, redirect me to home.jsf to login again
public void doFilter(ServletRequest req, ServletResponse res, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) req;
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) res;
HttpSession s = request.getSession(false);
if (s != null) {
logger.log(Level.INFO, "Id Before: {0}", s.getId());
}
User user = (User) request.getSession().getAttribute("user");
s = request.getSession(false);
if (s != null) {
logger.log(Level.INFO, "Id After: {0}", s.getId());
}
if (user == null) {
String uuid = Helper.getCookieValue(request, Helper.COOKIE_NAME);
if (uuid != null) {
user = scholarEJB.findUserByUUID(uuid);
if (user != null) {
request.getSession().setAttribute("user", user); //Login
Helper.addCookie(response, Helper.COOKIE_NAME, uuid, Helper.COOKIE_AGE);
} else {
Helper.removeCookie(response, Helper.COOKIE_NAME);
}
}
}
if (user == null) {
response.sendRedirect("home.jsf");
} else {
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"); // HTTP 1.1.
response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache"); // HTTP 1.0.
response.setDateHeader("Expires", 0); // Proxies.
chain.doFilter(req, res);
}
Now as you see here, I manipulate some Cookie as well, but that is only happen when I check remember me. So now I am in CentralFeed.jsf, but then any request that I send from here will bring back to home.jsf to login again. I walk through a debugger, so when I first login, the first time I get into the Filter, i successfully retrieve the user object from session by request.getSession().getAttribute("user");. But after that, when I get back in the filter, I no longer the session attribute user anymore. I set session timeout to be 30 min in my web.xml
<session-config>
<session-timeout>
30
</session-timeout>
</session-config>
EDIT
Now when I print out the session Id between request, it is fact different session id, but I have no idea why? please help.
EDIT2
@BalusC: I actually did invalidate the session. Back then, you show me how to force a logout when user log in somewhere else (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2372311/jsf-how-to-invalidate-an-user-session-when-he-logs-twice-with-the-same-credentia). So inside User entity i have this
@Entity
public class User implements Serializable, HttpSessionBindingListener {
@Transient
private static Map<User, HttpSession> logins = new HashMap<User, HttpSession>();
@Override
public void valueBound(HttpSessionBindingEvent event) {
HttpSession session = logins.remove(this);
if (session != null) {
session.invalidate(); //This is where I invalidate the session
}
logins.put(this, event.getSession());
}
@Override
public void valueUnbound(HttpSessionBindingEvent event) {
logins.remove(this);
}
}
In the valueBound method, I did invalidate the session, when I comment it out, everything work. I walk through the debugger, and here is what happen. When I first log in, the LoginServlet catch it. Then the line request.getSession().setAttribute("user", user); invoke the method valueBound. Then the Filter got called, and the line chain.doFilter(req, res); invoke the valueBound method again, this time, session is not null so it get in the if and session.invalidate. I comment the session.invalidate out and it work. But as u might have guess, I cant force a log out when user login somewhere else. Do you see a obvious solution for this BalusC?
