Request inclusion of new Valve

[David R Robison]

I have developed a number of Tomcat applications. In most of them I do
my own user authentication via some web-form page. While this works
great, I would like to have the username included in the access log.
I've written a very simple valve that takes the Principal from the
current session and sets it as the User Principal for the HTTP Request.
This way, the user name will be saved with the access log record. I
would like to know if it could be added as a standard valve in a future
release.

Thanks

David R Robison
Open Roads Consulting, Inc.
http://www.openroadsconsulting.com
 


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE mbeans-descriptors PUBLIC
 "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Model MBeans Configuration File"
 "http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dtds/mbeans-descriptors.dtd";>

<!--
     Descriptions of JMX MBeans for ORCI

     $Id: orci-mbean-descriptors.xml,v 1.1 2003/06/17 19:32:51 drrobison Exp $
 -->

<mbeans-descriptors>

  <mbean         name="SessionPrincipalValve"
            className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ClassNameMBean"
          description="Valve that retrieves the Principal from a session attribute"
               domain="Catalina"
                group="Valve"
                 type="com.orci.tomcat.SessionPrincipalValve">

    <attribute   name="className"
          description="Fully qualified class name of the managed object"
                 type="java.lang.String"
            writeable="false"/>

    <attribute   name="debug"
          description="The debugging detail level for this component"
                 type="int"/>

    <attribute   name="sessionAttribute"
          description="The session attribute containing the principal"
                 type="java.lang.String"
            writeable="false"/>

  </mbean>

</mbeans-descriptors>


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