Sometimes after a restart of the JBoss Server, accessing our Seam based application results in a file download dialog instead of the redirection to the login page. Restarting the server again solved this usually.
To get a better understanding whats going on, I activated Charles in my Firefox and get the attached session Infos. The redirect happens and the page data will be send, but the last response is this:
<!DOCTYPE composition PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib" xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.ajax4jsf.org/rich" template="layout/template_no_sidebar.xhtml"> <ui:define name="main"> <h:form id="login"> <rich:panel styleClass="loginPanel"> <f:facet name="header">Login</f:facet> <p>Bitte melden Sie Sich an:</p> <s:decorate template="/layout/display.xhtml"> <ui:define name="label">Username</ui:define> <h:inputText id="username" value="#{identity.username}"/> </s:decorate> <s:decorate template="/layout/display.xhtml"> <ui:define name="label">Passwort</ui:define> <h:inputSecret id="password" value="#{identity.password}"/> </s:decorate> <s:decorate template="/layout/display.xhtml"> <ui:define name="label"></ui:define> <h:selectBooleanCheckbox id="rememberMe" value="#{identity.rememberMe}"/> <h:outputLabel for="rememberMe">Auf diesem Computer merken</h:outputLabel> </s:decorate> <div class="actionButtons"> <h:commandButton value="Login" action="#{identity.login}"/> </div> </rich:panel> </h:form> </ui:define> </ui:composition>