RE: [flexcoders] setUsernamePassword and J2EE login

[Carson Hager]

If you use standard J2EE auth to the container, you can get the remote user provided you are not using the proxy. There is currently an issue with the proxy not forwarding the cookie in most ( all that we've seen ) circumstances.  We have received a fix from Adobe on this that we are in the process of testing.   This being said, if you don't use the proxy, you'll be able to acccess the user without issue from within your service implementations.  Here's the kicker.  The AS2 VM doesn't not handle HTTP status code 500. It stops parsing the HTTP response when it sees a 500 which means that you will never be able to get at any data that occurs due to a SOAP Fault. Per the web services spec, the container is required to return an HTTP 500 status code when returning a fault. Effectively, you can't handle SOAP faults when you don't use the proxy and you get that meaningless error message that looks like it simply couldn't connect to the service.  This issue is "handled" by the proxy. It changes that HTTP status code to 200 so that the flash player can parse the request.  This is a kludge if you ask me but that's where we are today.  As a note, this is being addressed in FP8.5 but the fix will very likely not ( according to Adobe ) be fixed in earlier versions due to backward compatibility.     Carson ____________________________________________   Carson Hager Cynergy Systems, Inc. http://www.cynergysystems.com   Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office:  866-CYNERGY Mobile: 1.703.489.6466     From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Chotin Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 7:37 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] setUsernamePassword and J2EE login I think you should be able to get it from the flashgateway.Gateway.getHttpRequest().getRemotePrincipal() or getRemoteUser().   From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Schneider Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:32 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] setUsernamePassword and J2EE login   After calling setUsernamePassword on a service, is this information “available” to the backend services (remote object or web service)? Or perhaps after a J2EE/JAAS login? If so, how/where?   We have a requirement to do a lot of logging of who’s doing what in the system and was wondering whether there are any alternatives to passing a username/id with most/all APIs. Thanks for any help.   Jim -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com SPONSORED LINKS Web site design development Computer software development Software design and development Macromedia flex Software development best practice YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "flexcoders" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.