Well, that's kind of a nasty way of passing auth info around. Certain
characters, like pound (#) will break your url if they are not encoded
properly.
I say nasty because you are sending sensitive information (username
and password) over the wire unprotected. You may want to look into
using a forward instead of a redirect.
Axton Grams
On 8/9/07, Prasan Katti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> **
> Additionally, we have a custom login.jsp page and are basically using the
> Java api to authenticate users as shown below:
>
>
> ARServerUser ctx=new
> ARServerUser(username,password,locale,server,port);
> try
> {
> ctx.login();
> auth= true;
> }
> catch(Exception e)
> {
> auth = false;
> errMsg="Please check the username/password";
> }
> finally
> {
> ctx.clear();
> }
> if(auth)
> {
> String
> url="/arsys/servlet/ViewFormServlet?form=APPFORM&server="+server+"&username="+username+"&pwd="+password+"&mode=create";
> response.sendRedirect(url);
> }
> Also, just found out that the passwords work fine with the default login.jsp
> in the mid-tier. So could this problem have to do something with the above
> code using Java api or the server JVM??
>
> Thanks,
> Prasan.
>
>
>
> On 8/9/07, Prasan Katti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The ARS server is running on Solaris 9 but the LDAP server is on Suse
> Linux.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/9/07, Grooms, Frederick W <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > > **
> > >
> > > What OS is the ARS Server running on?
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> [mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Prasan Katti
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:51 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Authentication problem in Remedy LDAP for passwords with
> special characters.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Listers,
> > >
> > > We have recently started using the AREA LDAP plugin to authenticate our
> remedy users with the LDAP server.
> > > We are cross referencing blank passwords and are having problems
> authenticating users whose password contain special characters (#,@,& etc).
> > > We are able to authenticate these users against the LDAP server using a
> different client (like LDAP Browser), so the problem could be with the
> Remedy plugin.
> > > The LDAP server is basically the Novell eDirectory used within the
> organization.
> > > If anybody here has faced similar problems before or if I am missing
> something obvious (server settings?), please let me know.'
> > >
> > > The server environment is ARS 6.3 patch 21, Tomcat 2.0.51 running on
> Oracle 9i database.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Prasan.
> > >
> > >
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> >
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