Installation guide

Known Problems and Solutions

So, for example, if you start the web server from a terminal window, you should see the output

there. Use standard Unix file redirection to pipe the standard output into a file (that is, modify your

server_root

/https-instance/start file). You can use the ServletContext.log method to write to

the error log file.

Multiple Headers and Servlets calling getHeaders

iPlanet Web Server 4.1 collapses multiple headers that came in on a request with the same name

into a single header, with values comma separated. As a result of this, a servlet calling

getHeaders

always gets back an enumeration containing one string that has all the values separated by

commas.

New Session ID generation

Session ID generator, which is used for Servlet sessions, employs cryptographically-strong unique

random number generation algorithms. This may present a performance problem on older, slow

machines. The Session Manager API (see the

SimpleSessionManager.java example) allows you to

redefine the random ID generation method and customize it to your particular needs.

Problem 387702. Content Length Set to 0 After a Servlet Sets It

If a servlet uses the HttpServletResponse.setContentLength method to convey the length of data

that would be sent to the client but does not actually send the data over, the web server resets the

content length to 0.

Problem 390226. Unable to Set the Expiration for a Session

Sessions are not getting invalidated when the setMaxInactiveInterval method is used.

Workaround

Set the session expiration in the servlets.properties configuration file. For example:

servlets.sessionmgr=com.netscape.server.http.session.YourSesMgr

servlets.sessionmgr.initArgs=maxSessions=20,timeOut=300,reapInterval=150

Problem 395924. Using regular expressions in rules.properties to redirect all URIs ending in an

extension to a named servlet doesn’t effectively work

Web Server supports regular expressions in the rules.properties file to run a given servlet when

the incoming URL matches with a regular expression:

# Servlet rules properties (autogenerated)

# This file specifies the translation rules for invoking servlets.

# The syntax is:

# <virtual-path>=<servlet-name>

# or

# @regular_expression=<servlet-name> (use double back-slashes)