This solves a major pain for me. I constantly have people bookmark the login page. Thanks for sharing this info.
-----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of L. J. Head Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Login.jsp Manipulation As with most things I went through several iterations before I found the eventual solution. I will document it here for posterity sake. When you access the Mid-Tier sever with a redirect in the URL or are redirected by a servlet it goes into one of two variables. Request.nextPage (if you use the goto parameter) or session.returnBack (if you went to /arsys/home for example). In the login.jsp there is a hidden input field named goto that by default value of <%=nextPage%>. Through the assistance of Carey and Axton I was able to modify my login_common.jsp file. The default line was String nextPage = (String)request.getParameter("goto"); if (nextPage == null) { nextPage = ""; } All that this section of code does is ensure that the nextPage variable is not null. I have modified my lines to be as such String nextPage = (String)request.getParameter("goto"); if (nextPage == null) { String returnBack = (String)session.getAttribute("returnBack"); if (returnBack == null) { nextPage = "/arsys/home"; } else { nextPage = ""; } } What this does is if nextPage is null it then checks to see if the hidden session variable 'returnBack' is also null. If both variables are null you will get an error on the home page stating that it doesn't know where to go. So if both are null I set the nextPage variable to /arsys/home, if returnBack is not null...I just continue the default behavior of setting nextPage = "". This effectively allows people to bookmark the login.jsp page without getting errors. It also allows for direct link URL's to allow the user to get directly to their record. I would like to thank the community once again for helping me solve yet another issue. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 5:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Login.jsp Manipulation The value LJ was looking for was stored in a session attribute. I imagine they left the login page jsp during the 601->63 rewrite so that customers could alter it. If the page were served from a servlet, we wouldn't have any place to customize the layout/fields unless we had the source to said servlet, or some other funny hooks were there to take the place of login.jsp. Axton Grams On 5/13/07, John Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was explaining this problem to a UK Remedy customer only on Friday. > Frankly, the entire "redirect to /shared/login/login.jsp" logic is > utterly bizarre and I can only assume that a newbie was given the task > of writing this bit of the Midtier. Clearly, if one goes to > /arsys/home and is not logged in, a login page should be presented > without a browser redirect. > > However, onto the matter in hand, can we establish if the goto > parameter is set when a user goes directly to a form entry? I.e. go to > a form entry when you're not logged in, and when presented with the > login page, paste the contents of the form. Once you've done that we > can address the problem in more detail (as we don't appear to have established this yet). > > > > John > > Java System Solutions : http://www.javasystemsolutions.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" > ________________________________________________________________________ ____ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" ________________________________________________________________________ _______ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
