Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat sessions API

Inspect and expire HTTP sessions

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Operations 2

GET /sessions Display session statistics for an application #

GET /expire Expire idle sessions #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Apache Tomcat Manager Text applications Sessions API
  description: The Apache Tomcat Manager web application exposes a text-based HTTP API for deploying, undeploying, listing, starting, stopping, and inspecting web applications running inside a Tomcat server. All commands require HTTP Basic authentication by a user holding the `manager-script` role. Responses are plain text where the first line begins with `OK -` on success or `FAIL -` on error.
  version: '10.1'
  license:
    name: Apache License 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  contact:
    name: Apache Tomcat
    url: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-10.1-doc/manager-howto.html
servers:
- url: http://{host}:{port}/manager/text
  description: Tomcat Manager text endpoint
  variables:
    host:
      default: localhost
    port:
      default: '8080'
security:
- basicAuth: []
tags:
- name: sessions
  description: Inspect and expire HTTP sessions
paths:
  /sessions:
    get:
      tags:
      - sessions
      summary: Display session statistics for an application
      operationId: sessionStats
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/PathRequired'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Plain-text session statistics
          content:
            text/plain: {}
  /expire:
    get:
      tags:
      - sessions
      summary: Expire idle sessions
      operationId: expireSessions
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/PathRequired'
      - name: idle
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 0
        description: Minutes of inactivity; 0 expires all sessions
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Plain-text result
          content:
            text/plain: {}
components:
  parameters:
    PathRequired:
      name: path
      in: query
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Context path of the target application (with leading slash)
  securitySchemes:
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: HTTP Basic authentication; user must hold the `manager-script` role