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----- Original Message -----
From: "Konstantin Priblouda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] LoginAction question


>
> --- Bernardinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Suppose that I want to protect my web app with
> > custom login, so that every
> > request to the web-app's resources are intercepted
> > and validated (custom).
> > Login validation will re-direct user to appropriate
> > resources. In WW-2, how
> > do I do that?
> > My first thought is to employ Servlet Filter to
> > intercept all requests.
> > Alternative is to employ login interceptor, however
> > as my understanding of
> > it, interceptors  works on action based requests.
> > That is if I have <ww:form
> > action="...">....</ww:form> or calling <www:action
> > ..../> tag. No?
> > What if I want to prevent static resource (such as
> > jsp page which has a link
> > to another action-ed page) from being accessed
> > without proper access code?
> > That is to prevent user typing directly the url of
> > the jsp page (static in
> > this case). And no, putting the web resources under
> > WEB-INF dir is not an
> > option here.
> >
> > So, how would you guys implement such logic? Any
> > advice is highly
> > appreciated.
>
> I used filter approach for access control.
> My portal app consists of several
> "application" ( each with own directory tree ) and
> every "application" consitst of some "screens" -
> their configuration lives in XML, and access control
> is done through filter.
>
The filter approach seems nicer

> Actions can [must not] perform own access control.
>
Care to eleborate on this?

>
> Access control is done via OSUser.
>
Thanks for pointing out OSUser. I've never used it. May consider it for
future projects :)

Thanks Konstantin.

/bernard




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