Folks,

My app spawns another window to display help, via the window.open() javascript call.

The new window does not share the same session as the original, the session ID is always different.
Occasionally the ID of the new window is that of a session that has expired so the help does not
display.

I think his behaviour is IE specific, I found a couple of (non tomcat) explanations here:

http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/general/how-do-i-manage-a-session-across-multiple-w
indows.html.
http://de3.php.net/session-start

In the latter it says:
"The problem is that IE doesn't always use the same IE process to host a new pop-up window - it
chooses one (using some mysterious strategy) from the pool of running IE processes! Since session
information (cookies) is not preserved across processes, the pop-up may loose the session (and
probably redirect the user to your log-in page.)"

Does anyone know how to make the new window use the same session as the original window?
Or at least use a brand-new session rather than a recycled old one?

TIA - Adam