[jetty-users] Jetty http session is always null

[David Tanzer <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am trying to implement a simple servlet which uses a HTTP session in
an embedded jetty container. To start jetty I use the following code:

Server server = new Server(12043);
ServletContextHandler handler = new
		ServletContextHandler(ServletContextHandler.SESSIONS);
handler.setContextPath("/");
server.setHandler(handler);
ServletHolder holder = new ServletHolder(new BaseServlet());
handler.addServlet(holder, "/*");
server.start();
server.join();

The servlet acquires a session with 

HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);

and stores some data in it. Upon the next request it gets the session
with the following code:

HttpSession session = request.getSession(false);

and there the session is always null. I did not find any information on
the internet about this particular problem. I have also experimented
with setting a SessionManager or SessionIdManager, but that did not seem
to change anything.

Kind Regards,
David