WAS v8.5 > Administer applications and their environment > Administer web applications > Configure HTTP sessions

Configure session tracking

Review the Session tracking options to plan your approach to session management. To configure session tracking, complete the following:

1. Go to the appropriate level of Session Management.

2. Specify the session tracking mechanism to pass the session ID between the browser and the servlet:
   • To track sessions with cookies, click Enable Cookies.

     To change the cookie settings, click Modify.

   • To track sessions with URL rewriting, click Enable URL Rewriting.

     To enable protocol switch rewriting, click Enable protocol switch rewriting.

   • To track sessions with SSL information, click Enable SSL ID tracking.

     Deprecated feature: Session tracking using the SSL ID is deprecated in WebSphere Application Server version 7.0. We can reconfigure session tracking to use cookies or modify the application to use URL rewriting.

3. Click Apply.

4. Click Save.

Subtopics

• Serializing access to session data
  The Servlet API supports concurrent access to a session in a given server instance. WAS provides an option to prevent the concurrent access to a session in a given server instance so that concurrent modification of a session does not occur in a given server instance.
• Cookie settings
  Use this page to configure cookie settings for session management.
• Session management custom properties
  We can specify additional settings for session management through setting custom properties.
• Session tracking options
  HTTP session support also involves session tracking. We can use cookies, URL rewriting, or SSL information for session tracking.
• Serializing access to session data
  The Servlet API supports concurrent access to a session in a given server instance. WAS provides an option to prevent the concurrent access to a session in a given server instance so that concurrent modification of a session does not occur in a given server instance.
• Cookie settings
  Use this page to configure cookie settings for session management.
• Session management custom properties
  We can specify additional settings for session management through setting custom properties.

Related concepts:

Sessions

Reference:

Session management settings
Session tracking options

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