Sorry. I left off some info: Tomcat 5.0.25 Win2k JDK1.4.2
/robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 8:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] Container Managed Security - preventing direct access > to .jsp > > > Greetings, > > I'm new to Tomcat and this mailing list, and have a question > regarding configuring Tomcat to simply disallow access to .jsp pages > which I have been protected via the <security-constraint/> in my web app > web.xml file. > > >From what I understand, the following should do the trick and cause > a 403 error to be sent to the browser by the container. I would like > to trap that error code and display a user friendly page (I chose any page > so I would know it's working). > > I've simply modified the Tomcat jsp-examples web app. Here's a snippet > of the necessary artifacts in the web.xml file. > > > > <error-page> > <error-code>403</error-code> > <location>/dates/date.jsp</location> > </error-page> > > <security-constraint> > <display-name>Example Security Constraint</display-name> > <web-resource-collection> > <web-resource-name>Protected Area</web-resource-name> > <url-pattern>/security/protected/*</url-pattern> > </web-resource-collection> > </security-constraint> > > > I believe the constraint is working, but I don't think the > <error-page/> is "catching" the 403 status code. This is probably > because a 403 status code is not returned, but rather a 200 (I verified > this by looking at the response headers). > > Anyhow, the content of the returned page is below within the <content/>: > > > <content> > You are logged in as remote user null in session > D97EE937BEC953A7E82E42B3956AED86 > > No user principal could be identified. > > To check whether your username has been granted a particular role, enter it > here: > > > If you have configured this app for form-based authentication, you can log > off by > clicking here. This should cause you to be returned to the logon page after > the > redirect that is performed. > </content> > > I'm sure this has happened to someone else, I just cannot find where. > I googled and didn't come up with much. I searched the archives using > "You are logged in as remote user null in session" and no matches were > found. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > /robert > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
