multiple JSESSIONID cookie with JSF - jsf

I have JEE application Wildfly RC1 JEE7 - CDI,EJB, JSF Mojarra 2.2.4
In my application i use h:outputLink for create links simply without calling bean actions.
like this
<h:outputLink styleClass="btn btn-primary" value="#{request.contextPath}/views/product/addproduct.xhtml" >
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-plus" />
add product
</h:outputLink>
After many navigation, Bean actions don't work. In chrome i discover 3 cookies JSESSIONID with different path corresponding to each navigation link
Any idea to handle this

source of problem not identified but resolved by replacing apache shiro servlet session manager by
sessionManager = org.apache.shiro.web.session.mgt.DefaultWebSessionManager
securityManager.sessionManager = $sessionManager

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I upgraded my server in Eclipse from WildFly v10.x to WildFly 18.0.0 Final and now one of my JSF/Primefaces applications doesn't render properly after updating the view. On initial page load the view looks fine but if I select some filters (Primeface dropdowns, checkboxes, etc..) and click a command button to refresh the view (AJAX), it renders as if Primefaces is no longer available. See screenshots
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After View Is Updated:
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I fixed by replacing #all on the p:commandButton with a more specific target
<p:commandButton action="#{...}" update="#all" />
<p:commandButton action="#{...}" update=":tripFormId:dataTableId" />
I realized after seeing this in the Chrome console debugger
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detrimental effects to the end user's experience. For more help, check
https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/.

Omnifaces ViewScoped generates a POST call

My app is using Tomee 7.0.5, Java 8, MySql, JSF 2.2, Omnifaces 2.7. Primefaces 6.1, Prettyfaces 3.3.3. I tried to use Omnifaces' ViewScoped annotation together with #Named in my backing bean. It is required to use OWASP to validate requests. For some unknown reason a click on a link is converted to a POST request and since this link is used to navigate to another page there is no token yet in the request and so the validate request fails. Now, if I use javax.faces.view.ViewScoped instead everything is fine. I have 12 applications with the same pattern.
Each app has a template with a p:toolbar and links to navigate like:
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Intercepting session time-out when calling show on rich:modalpanel

I am trying to intercept a session time-out when a user click on commadLink that shows a modal panel. So far, I haven't been successful...
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Verifying additional parameter with j-security-check

I have implemented web application login using j-security-check which accepts parameters j_username and j_password for authentication with background registry. Now, I need to add date of birth as one more parameter and need to authenticate the user with this parameter too.
Is there a way to extend j-security-check to accept additional parameters?
I would like to avoid performing the check in a servlet filter, if possible.
Using WebSphere V8, MyFaces JSF 2.0, Servlet 3.0, Custom database based authentication
The easiest way would be to append the date of birth to the actual j_username (ie. with JavaScript and then manually split it in the login module.
Replace j_security_check by programmatic login via HttpServletRequest#login().
E.g.
<h:form>
<h:inputText value="#{bean.username}" />
<h:inputSecret value="#{bean.password}" />
<h:inputText value="#{bean.birthdate}" />
<h:commandButton value="Login" action="#{bean.login}" />
</h:form>
with
public void login() {
// Do your thing with birthdate here.
// ...
// Then perform programmatic login.
try {
request.login(username, password);
// Login success. Redirect to landing page.
} catch (ServletException e) {
// Login fail. Return to login page.
}
}
This is in detail outlined in 2nd part of this answer: Performing user authentication in Java EE / JSF using j_security_check

How to programmatically send POST request to JSF page without using HTML form?

I have very simple JSF bean like shown below:
import org.jboss.seam.annotations.Name;
#Name(Sample.NAME)
public class Sample {
public static final String NAME="df";
private String text = "text-test";
public void sampleM(){
System.out.println("Test: "+text);
}
public String getText() {
return text;
}
public void setText(String text) {
this.text = text;
}
}
And JSF form connected with this component:
<h:form id="sampleForm">
<h:commandButton id="sampleButton" action="#{df.sampleM()}" value="ok" />
</h:form>
Now, I would like to programmatically send POST request to this form.
According to my investigation the key here are POST parameters.
Selected properly gives proper results (String 'Test: text-test' is printed on serwer's console).
So the question is: How should I select POST data that was correct?
JSF form shown above produces this HTML form:
<form id="sampleForm" name="sampleForm" method="post" action="/pages/main/main.smnet" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
<input type="hidden" name="sampleForm" value="sampleForm" />
<input id="sampleForm:sampleButton" type="submit" name="sampleForm:sampleButton" value="ok" />
<input type="hidden" name="javax.faces.ViewState" id="javax.faces.ViewState" value="j_id65" autocomplete="off" />
</form>
So these parameters are corrent.
But how can I find out what parameters (name and value) will be sufficient for any other component?
For example: when I send POST data the same like in shown HTML form but with different 'javax.faces.ViewState' parameter value, component method will not be executed.
I understand that you're basically asking how to submit a JSF form programmatically using some HTTP client such as java.net.URLConnection or Apache HttpComponents Client, right?
You need to send a GET request first and make sure that you maintain the same HTTP session (basically, the JSESSIONID cookie) across requests. Let your HTTP client extract the Set-Cookie header from the response of the first GET request, obtain the JSESSIONID cookie from it and send it back as Cookie header of subsequent POST requests. This will maintain the HTTP session in the server side, otherwise JSF will treat it as a "View Expired" which may return either on a decently configured JSF web application a HTTP 500 error page with ViewExpiredException, or on a badly configured JSF web application behave as a page refresh.
As part of JSF's stateful nature and implied CSRF attack prevention, the forms must be submitted with a valid javax.faces.ViewState value as the client has retrieved itself on the initial GET request. You also need to make sure that you send the name=value pair of all other hidden fields and particularly the one of the submit button along as well.
So, if your initial GET request gives you this HTML back
<form id="sampleForm" name="sampleForm" method="post" action="/pages/main/main.smnet" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
<input type="hidden" name="sampleForm" value="sampleForm" />
<input id="sampleForm:sampleButton" type="submit" name="sampleForm:sampleButton" value="ok" />
<input type="hidden" name="javax.faces.ViewState" id="javax.faces.ViewState" value="j_id65" autocomplete="off" />
</form>
then you need to parse it (Jsoup may be helpful in this) and extract the following request parameters:
sampleForm=sampleForm
sampleForm:sampleButton=ok
javax.faces.ViewState=j_id65
Finally send a POST request on /pages/main/main.smnet with exactly those request parameters (and the JSESSIONID cookie!). Be careful though, it's possible that a (poor) JSF developer has skipped e.g. id="sampleButton" from the <h:commandButton> and then JSF would autogenerate one which looks like in this format sampleForm:j_id42. You can't hardcode them as the value may change depending on the component's position in the server side tree and you would then really need to parse it out the obtained HTML.
Nonetheless, it's wise to contact the site owner/admin and ask if there isn't a web service API available for the task you had in mind. A decent Java EE website which uses a JSF application for a HTML frontend usually also uses a separate JAX-RS application for a REST frontend. It is much more easy and reliable to extract information via such a web service API than by scraping a HTML document.
See also:
How can i programmatically upload a file to a website? (this also concerns JSF)
How to use java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests

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