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Snaglefrac,

Snaglefrac wrote:
> I want to use j_security check with https on port 8443. I only want to
> secure the login pages and not the whole application.

Then you need to configure your <security-constraint>s appropriately.

> so ..
> these pages need to be secured when accessed:
> /secure/login.jsp
> /secure/loginerr.jsp
> 
> everything else is secured by form based quthentication and uses an ldap
> realm. 

If "everything else" will be secured by form-based auth, then what
should secure the above two URLs?

Any resource that is protected will be protected using the same
authentication type: you can't use BASIC for one set of URLs and FORM
for another set of URLs in the same webapp.

>                       <url-pattern>/j_security_check</url-pattern>
>                       <url-pattern>/secure/j_security_check</url-pattern>
>                       <url-pattern>/j_security_check</url-pattern>

Note that you can't secure j_security_check: this URL is special and
will be handled by the container whether you list it in your
<security-constraint>s or not.

> The problem is when i hit the application where i have form authentication
> connection to LDAP, it uses the /secure/login.jsp page, because j_security
> check redirects to this page.

You can't change how this works.

> but it is not forced at https, because the url pattern doesn't match. So how
> can I forced the login.jsp page to be https! I don't want my ldap user
> password floating around out there.

Have you tried setting your <form-login-page> to use an HTTPs URL?

- -chris
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