javax - getSession returning null

Question

Pretty simple question, request.getSession(true) returns null as if refusing to create a session. I've restarted my machine and added memory to both Tomcat and IntelliJ. Any thoughts or fixes? My coworkers are stumped as it works for them no issue.

Answer 1

Try using getSession(), no arguments, it is in the 2.1 servlet spec

Please refer to https://community.oracle.com/message/2915765#2915765

for more on this.

Answer 2

Please refer to this post https://freddebostrom.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/tomcat-55-getsession-returns-null/

There is a mention about

Based on this post( http://www.mail-archive.com/jetspeed-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg15009.html )

modifying the server.xml configuration file in Tomcat by adding

emptySessionPath="true"

will solve the problem.