Hi, I need help with JSP session. My problem: I have a login page. When a user logs in then, i set a session and its expiration time. So, when the session is expired, the user will be redirected to the login page with a session expired message. I want to identify if a page has been loaded first time by the user, or it has been loaded as a result of expiration of session. My code: I do the following when the user successfully logs in: Code: session.setAttribute("username",user_id); session.setMaxInactiveInterval(600); I check this in every page (i.e. check in the header of everypage) Code: String username = (String) session.getAttribute("username"); if (session.isNew() == true && username == "") { response.sendRedirect("login.jsp?rtype=expired"); } else { //check the credentials } Also when the user logs out the following code is executed: Code: session.invalidate(); My problem is that even when the user comes to the page for first time, it redirects the user to "login.jsp?rtype=expired" page.