Session id in Tomcat Cluster

Question

I have a basic concept question about tomcat cluster. That is, if I have a tomcat cluster with two machines ( we say, m1 and m2 )

If I access a webpage in m1 with the url : http://192.168.0.10:8080/examples/test.jsp , I will get a session id ( we say, s1 )

Then, I access another webpage in m2 with the url : http://192.168.0.11:8080/examples/test.jsp , I will get a session id ( we say, s2 )

If I have already configured the session replication functionality, are the s1 and s2 equal ?

Thanks !

Answer 1

Yes. And in fact when you visit a page in m2 will you not get any session ID. Tomcat m2 will simply read your cookie and associate the request with the existing (replicated from m1) session.