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In order to capture session-id of user in tomcat access logs, use the following value for pattern attribute in AccessLogValve. pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i" %S" For more information, loook at AccessLogValve API documentation.

I was looking for a way to easily manage web application specific configuration in separate properties file. In our current version of application, a properties file was included in a war file of web application. However, this was problematic since the properties file had to be updated every time we deployed a new war file. I tried passing the name of the properties file in Tomcat command-line but that did not work well for multiple web applications. Then I came across Environment tags in Tomcat context definition that can be configured for each individual application. So I decided to us the following solution. 1. Add Environment entry for name of a properties file in context definition of web application. <Context path="/app1" docBase="C:/app1/web-dir" debug="0" reloadable="true"> <Environment name="appconfig" value="WebApp1.properties" type="java.lang.String" overri...

I misplaced my Motorola Razr and wanted to use my old Nokia phone in the mean time. So I went to a local operator outlet store and they gave me a new SIM card but refused to unlock the old phone. I also tried calling the customer service but got the same answer. So I did a search on google to see if any third-party could help me unlock the Nokia phone. That is when I came across Free SIM Unlock Nokia online . I was able to unlock my Nokia phone in a matter of few minutes without any issues. The steps were very precise and simple. I wonder if it is worth the time and money operators have to invest in enforcing this restriction, when the phones can be unlocked so easily.

Recently I came across an article that mentioned Pearl Crescent Page Saver extension for Firefox that allows users to save a snapshot of the website as an image. It is a very handy tool that lets you save either the visible portion of the website or the entire website to an image file. That is very helpful as I remember I had to use Paint tool to manually merge the snapshots of a website that did not fit all in one page.

In order to extract a column values from a text file where each line contains several words separated by space, following can be used; cut -d' ' -f6 file.txt > result.txt This would extract values from 6th column in a file named file.txt where each line contains words separated by white spaces.