[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (JBWEB-235) "max-active-sessions" functionality to limit the number of sessions works as designed, but does not result in a (configured) error page to be shown to the end-user

"max-active-sessions" functionality to limit the number of sessions works as designed, but does not result in a (configured) error page to be shown to the end-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBWEB-235 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBWEB-235 Project: JBoss Web Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Tomcat Affects Versions: JBossWeb-2.1.12.GA Environment: all Reporter: Tom Fonteyne Assignee: Remy Maucherat Attachments: sessionlimit.war, source.tar.gz Configuring a webapp via jboss-web.xml to limit (and passivate) the number of active sessions work fine, and an exception gets thrown/logged in the server.log: 16:45:03,454 FATAL [JspFactoryImpl] Exception initializing page context java.lang.IllegalStateException: createSession(): number of active sessions exceeds the maximum limit: 2 when trying to create session at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.session.JBossCacheManager.createSessionInternal(JBossCacheManager.java:497) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.session.JBossCacheManager.createSession(JBossCacheManager.java:448) at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.doGetSession(Request.java:2373) at org.apache.catalina.connector.Request.getSession(Request.java:2100) at org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getSession(RequestFacade.java:833) at org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade.getSession(RequestFacade.java:844) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl._initialize(PageContextImpl.java:146) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.initialize(PageContextImpl.java:124) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.internalGetPageContext(JspFactoryImpl.java:107) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspFactoryImpl.getPageContext(JspFactoryImpl.java:63) at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:44) ... so far so good. But, we would expect "java.lang.IllegalStateException" to cause the error mechanisme to kick in due to in web.xml: <error-page> <exception-type>java.lang.IllegalStateException</exception-type> <location>/max.html</location> </error-page> This does not happen, and the end-user is presented with an empty screen in his browser likely thinking that the site went down. Note that when the 3th user hits a servlet at his first request, the error-page is shown correctly - so this issue is limited to Jasper.