There are two problems with this: 1) Your Filter will not get called, since authentication happens before Filters (you'd need to use a Valve, but then you are locked into Tomcat). 2) Unless you are using Tomcat 5.x nightly, Request attibutes won't be available to the login-page for the simple reason that that happens on a different Request.
The simplest solution would be to use mod_jk to connect Domino & Tomcat and set tomcatAuthentication="false". However, the Domino connector is probably the least tested ..... "Raible, Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You could put a filter on /* in your app, and if the user is routed to the > login page (check the URL for an indexOf("login.jsp")) - then set a request > variable containing the parameter you want to save. > > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: Val T. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:46 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Auto Login Using Form Based Authentication > > > Hi, > > I have an atypical situation in that I am trying to auto login users from > another system (a Lotus Domino system) when they connect to my JSP > application. I am using Tomcat 4.1.18 and have form based authentication > working on it. I would prefer if the users did not have to explicitly > login, because, as far as they are concerned, it's all part of the same > application. > > Here is what I was hoping to be able to do: > > The user, who is already logged in on the Domino system, clicks on the link > to my application. The link contains the user's UserID, as a parameter. > The page they are linking to is in a restricted area, so Tomcat serves up > the login page, which takes the UID parameter, retrieves the related > password from the database, and logs the user in onload. > > I have it all working beautifully, EXCEPT that I can't seem to be able to > retrieve the parameter from the URL. I suspect that it is lost when, > instead of serving up the destination page, Tomcat serves up the login page > instead. Is there a way to pass a parameter to the login page? I think the > issue is the fact that you can't just call the login page directly. Does > anyone see a way around this? > > I was thinking that maybe I'd have to link to an index page first, and then > write a cookie, which I'd have to access from the login page. That seems > like such a round-about way to go, when it would be so much simpler to just > grab a parameter from the URL. > > Thanks in advance for any advice. > > Val > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
