Indeed that is not covered by the specs. I'll see what can be done to
solve this for Serlvets 2.3.
arkin
dan benanav wrote:
>
> No that is not the point. I know that you can enforce login to all resources
> but what if you want the following to happen -
>
> A user enters a URL and goes to a home page which has an optional login
> form. If you type in your username and password you will be logged in.
> Otherwise you can just go to other pages. How would you write a servlet to
> access the authentication services of the servlet container in a standard
> way?
>
> dan
>
> Assaf Arkin wrote:
>
> > > The spec will handle the case where you don't want to require login
> > > until the user wants to access a protected resource. But what if you
> > > want the user to login before accessing a protected resource? Looks
> > > like that Servlet will have to be written in a container dependent
> > > way. But it would be nice if there were a standard way to do that.
> >
> > Once again look hard into the Servlet 2.2 specs. You will find a way to
> > enforce login across the entire Web site (all resources).
> >
> > arkin
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Laird
> > > >
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