GIAC Exam GSNA Topic 1 Question 35 Discussion

The getSession() method of the HttpServletRequest interface returns the current session associated with the request, or creates a new

session if no session exists. The method has two syntaxes as follows:

public HttpSession getSession(): This method creates a new session if it does not exist.

public HttpSession getSession(boolean create): This method becomes similar to the above method if create is true, and returns the

current session if create is false. It returns null if no session exists.

Answer B is incorrect. The getSession(false) method returns a pre-existing session. It returns null if the

client has no session

associated with it.

Answer A and E are incorrect. There is no such method as getNewSession() in Java.