If you only require simple authentication, you can get by without even using
a filter and just using auth constraints in the deployment descriptor:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/webxml.html#Security_and_Authentication

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Don Schwarz <[email protected]> wrote:

> From
> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/staticfiles.html
> :
>
> "Any request for a URL whose path matches a static file serves the file
> directly to the browser—even if the path also matches a servlet or filter
> mapping. You can configure which files App Engine treats as static files
> using the appengine-web.xml file."
>
> You can learn how to configure static files here:
>
>
> http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/appconfig.html#Static_Files_and_Resource_Files
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:33 AM, gemma <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm new to App Engine and am jumping straight in and learning via
>> writing an app, as you do.  I figured that a good thing to do was to
>> create a servlet filter that checks the user's login status,
>> forwarding to the login page if they haven't got a login, or allowing
>> the request through if they are logged in.
>>
>> I've created a filter and added it to web.xml with a url-pattern of /
>> *.  However, when I load my app's html page, the doFilter method isn't
>> called.  My logging output shows the filter being inited OK, but the
>> doFilter doesn't get called.
>>
>> Is there something else I need to do to get this working?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Gemma
>>
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