Re: How to do the "Remember me on this computer" functionality?

[Sven Pfeiffer]

I guess the bigger problem will be to use the cookie instead of username 
password within a realm in tomcat.

AFAIK none of the standard realms looks for a cookie.
jschmidt wrote:
This article is a little old but I always liked it's articulation of
general principles.

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2004/01/19/persistent_login_cookie_best_practice/

Thank you very much for the interesting article Will :).

Joseph.