problems shutting down tomcat 4.0.3: java.net.ConnectException

2002-05-31 Thread Adam Hardy
For the archives I just found that this exception occurs when you try shutting tomcat down too quickly before it has finished starting. problems shutting down tomcat 4.0.3: java.net.ConnectException * From:

Re: Disabling PUT and DELETE methods in Tomcat 5 standalone

2004-03-08 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/08/2004 10:15 AM funkster wrote: security-constraint web-resource-collection web-resource-nameDisable Methods/web-resource-name url-pattern/*/url-pattern http-methodPUT/http-method http-methodDELETE/http-method

Re: Hiding Apache-Coyote/1.1 banner in Tomcat 5

2004-03-08 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/08/2004 02:57 PM James Agnew wrote: I've been looking for a way to prevent security scanners such as Nessus from being able to easily read Tomcat's standalone webserver details. I'm running Tomcat 5.0.18 standalone and Nessus identifies it as follows: Server Version: Apache-Coyote/1.1

Re: Disabling PUT and DELETE methods in Tomcat 5 standalone

2004-03-08 Thread Adam Hardy
What I was implying is that you have effectively disabled it already this way. Or are you able to do PUTs and DELETEs despite the security constraint? I'd be surprised. Adam On 03/08/2004 11:24 PM James Agnew wrote: So, how would I go about actually prevent PUT and DELETE for all users,

Re: Hiding Apache-Coyote/1.1 banner in Tomcat 5

2004-03-09 Thread Adam Hardy
Well in that case, it sounds like something which is sorely needed! ;) On 03/09/2004 10:36 AM Alex wrote: Lots of scripts out there for little script kiddies to run simply look at banners of different services to determine their worth in attempting to run an exploit against to gain access. By

Re: Tomcat Realm Authentication + Storing Objects In The Session

2004-03-11 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/11/2004 08:56 AM Ronald Wildenberg wrote: My biggest unknown right now is, because the server handles the creation of the session, what would it take to make the server grab a user object from the database and store it in the session after the user logs in? Can't you use an

Re: OT: Java Hosting

2004-03-11 Thread Adam Hardy
Try kgbinternet.com. They have very reasonable developer accounts with tomcat and mysql or postgresql. They have dedicated jvm's so you can start and stop your own tomcat. I have used them with good success. The person to talk to is Keith Bjorndahl at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good luck, Phil

Re: Dump HTTP Request and Response Headers

2004-03-12 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/12/2004 06:05 AM mganesh wrote: Dear folks, How could i dump HTTP Response and Request headers. Im using Apache 1.3 and Tomcat 4.0 MOD_JK. Hi Ganesh, if you are talking client-side, then there is an excellent extension for Firefox browser called HTTP headers. I expect there's something

Re: Java Hosting

2004-03-12 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/12/2004 08:49 AM Andi Reinbrech wrote: The next best thing since sliced bread is UML (no, not drawings of stickmen) User Mode Linux. Some hosting companies give you a Linux VM with full root telnet access. You can do with it whatever you want, install Tomcat, install JDK, PostgreSQL -

Re: Java Hosting

2004-03-12 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/12/2004 11:19 AM Graham Reeds wrote: Yes, +1 from me. I've been using UML at www.memset.co.uk for 3 months so far without the slightest glitch. I couldn't live without my root access :) I notice that memset.co.uk charge £9.60/year for the registration of .com domains. This is significantly

Re: Setting page content Type

2004-03-12 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/12/2004 12:23 PM Keith Hyland wrote: I'm looking at internationalizing a series of pages, which cover different character sets. I've been planning to store the content type value in a properties files along wit hthe rest of the internationalized text, but I've run into some problems. I

Re: Java Hosting

2004-03-12 Thread Adam Hardy
Graham, when doing your cost calculation don't forget that the email pop3 server is extra - normally. Only a couple of quid a month, but still. Adam On 03/12/2004 03:12 PM Graham Reeds wrote: They were nice enough to email me directly back with the answer: Just saw a link to your site while

Re: transitioning from non-logged in to logged in using security constraint....

2004-03-12 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/12/2004 03:34 PM Paul Tomsic wrote: What does tomcat do to ensure that you're logged in while using the j_security_check ? We're trying to transition users from non-logged in to logged in, but we've got a fair amt. of portions of the site that should be accessible from both states

Re: JAAS: Where does role information go in a Subject?

2004-03-12 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/12/2004 06:44 PM Alan Weissman wrote: I'm implementing a JAAS login mechanism in my app, not as a Realm but via Struts Action classes. In my loginModule, I am creating the Subject with principals and credentials and want to store role information. Where does Tomcat expect a list of roles

Re: JAAS: Where does role information go in a Subject?

2004-03-12 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/12/2004 08:02 PM Alan Weissman wrote: Hm! Thanks Adam - I guess that makes sense! Ok, so my two requirements for my authentication are 1) that I can load custom information into the session object and 2) that I support isUserInRole(). Realm authentication should take care of #2, but what

Re: JDBC problems with MySQL

2004-03-16 Thread Adam Hardy
Steve, post the Resource ResourceParams tags from your context for the webapp. State whether it's in a context.xml file, server.xml or whatever. Perhaps we can spot something. Adam ps this email has got some weird font - my mail reader is up the creek at the mo'. sorry On 03/16/2004 09:47

Re: JDBC problems with MySQL

2004-03-17 Thread Adam Hardy
these files as requested in just a sec. Thanks for your help. Steve -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:07 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: JDBC problems with MySQL Steve, post the Resource ResourceParams tags from your context

Re: Kumar's JDBC problems with MySQL

2004-03-18 Thread Adam Hardy
If you are having problems with JNDI connection pooling and you can't work out the problem, I would pay attention to the Host node settings in the server.xml. I would even get a fresh installation of tomcat and start from scratch with a simple test case. The attributes of Host, e.g.

Re: Connection warning

2004-03-18 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/18/2004 03:22 PM Jeff Poling wrote: We use tomcat as our middleware to provide a GUI-like interface for our UNIX character-based back-end. We are running into a problem with maxProcesses being maxed out and users not being able to use the system. A good rule of thumb is to multiply

Re: WARNING: Duplicate name in Manifest: Class-Path

2004-03-19 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/19/2004 06:35 AM Tom K wrote: Any clues where I would look to determine where this message? Start from only happens during sart up of my application. Mar 18, 2004 11:33:48 PM java.util.jar.Attributes read WARNING: Duplicate name in Manifest: Class-Path Sounds like somebody is

Re: Security

2004-03-21 Thread Adam Hardy
On 03/21/2004 05:53 AM Matt Anderson wrote: Hi All, This is the first time I have used this list so this question may have been asked many times before, however I tried to download previous message but were unsucessful. My question is, how do you configure the security manager to disable

Re: NEWBIE question: JAAS- versus JDBC- versus MemoryRealms

2004-03-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Leonard, I went the other way. I wrote a login module for tomcat's JAAS implementation and recently found it relatively easy to adapt it to JBoss. However I see you're going down the JDBC route. Adam On 03/23/2004 09:22 AM Leonard Wolters wrote: Hi, I've got a question concerning the

Re: post data through form based authentication example?

2004-03-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Martin, I would check your problem again. That is not the normal behaviour of the container-managed login. It will cache the original request during the login and send it on to the originally requested URL. Adam On 03/25/2004 02:45 PM Martin Alley wrote: Hi, Has any one got an example of a

Re: Write my own Realm - HOWTO ?

2004-03-25 Thread Adam Hardy
Tom, FIXME means it needs to be written... :) (Although I may be wrong there - perhaps someone will jump in) I should imagine that the original class for the JDBC realm would be a fine basis to start from. You should jar it up and put it in tomcat's common/lib directory. Adam On 03/25/2004

Re: post data through form based authentication example?

2004-03-29 Thread Adam Hardy
//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-web_3_0.dtd; jboss-web security-domainjava:/jaas/authtest/security-domain !-- Resource Environment References -- !-- Resource references -- !-- EJB References -- /jboss-web -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy

Re: post data through form based authentication example?

2004-03-29 Thread Adam Hardy
... Thanks Martin -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 March 2004 09:17 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: post data through form based authentication example? Hmm. You're right. I just tested it on my JBoss (running 3.2.4RC1 with tomcat 5.0.19) and I got

Re: JSP preloading taking a lot of time

2004-03-29 Thread Adam Hardy
Tomcat 3.3? Are you not able to upgrade? On 03/29/2004 01:10 PM Abhinandan Karmakar wrote: Hi, My web site has a lot of JSP pages ~60. Some JSPs are big ~400 lines. I have given load-on-startup for all my JSP pages. I notice that tomcat takes up about 200 secs to preload all my JSPs and during

Re: tomcat performance with 100 webapps

2004-03-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Pardon my ignorance but how do you share one port between multiple instances of tomcat? Are you talking launching tomcat 100 times (100 JVMs), or are you talking 100 Hosts configured in server.xml? Adam On 03/30/2004 05:28 PM Reynir Þór Hübner wrote: I just wanted to post my info on the

Re: FORM authentication - prevent login from popping up

2004-04-05 Thread Adam Hardy
To do a login programmatically via form-based authentication, you would need to watch for the login form being returned that has a submit action to j_security_check. You must submit that with the correct headers and form element parameters - j_username and j_password. Adam On 04/04/2004 11:20

Re: configuring realm in web.xml

2004-04-05 Thread Adam Hardy
On 04/05/2004 02:02 PM Simone - Dev wrote: Hello All, I'm developing a webapplication that needs to authorize and authenticate users looking inside a database. Generally I'll be doing it adding a JDBCRealm inside the server.xml (or in the contex xml file) But I don't have access to these files.

Re: JAAS problems migrating from JRun

2004-04-06 Thread Adam Hardy
Michiel, you are programming your own login trigger in a filter - I don't this this will work (although I'm happy to be wrong). I think tomcat is only going to adopt your principals as authenticated if you protect whichever pages necessary via security-constraints in the deployment descriptor.

Re: JAAS problems migrating from JRun

2004-04-06 Thread Adam Hardy
bluppie of type security.UserPrincipal to user bluppie Assigned principal authenticateduser of type security.RolePrincipal to user bluppie Assigned principal developer of type security.CustomPrincipal to user bluppie Adam Hardy wrote: Michiel, you are programming your own login trigger

Re: Problem with configuing Tomcat

2004-04-07 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Mike, I'm not familiar with openejb but I assume that you are talking about fetching the initial context for JBoss? Try this in your code: Hashtable env = new java.util.Hashtable(); env.put(java.naming.factory.initial, org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory);

Re: Authentication in tomcat

2004-04-12 Thread Adam Hardy
On 04/12/2004 10:31 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm a bit confused. I'm trying tomcat's authentication with bad or no results. The documentation is very simple and I don't understand so well. I've a web application and I want to make authentication with a user role and a admin role. The

Re: tomcat 4 vs 5 form based container auth filters

2004-04-12 Thread Adam Hardy
Yes your observations are correct. It's my understanding that filters are not invoked until after authentication. i.e. after the form-based login. I have no experience of site-mesh, but it seems a bit weird anyway to put decorations on a page via a filter - surely you should be encapsulating

Re: tomcat 4 vs 5 form based container auth filters

2004-04-12 Thread Adam Hardy
Martin Alley wrote: Hi Adam, Why do you think this behaviour changed from tomcat4 ? I haven't gone into the full architecture of sitemesh, as yet, but I know it includes a filter. Martin -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2004 11:26 To: Tomcat

Re: tomcat 4 vs 5 form based container auth filters

2004-04-12 Thread Adam Hardy
. I'll see if I can find anything in the tc5 release notes on this. Thanks again Martin -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 April 2004 13:13 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: tomcat 4 vs 5 form based container auth filters AFAIK it has something to do

Re: tomcat 4 vs 5 form based container auth filters

2004-04-16 Thread Adam Hardy
2004 16:42 To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: tomcat 4 vs 5 form based container auth filters Thanks Adam It seems to me that the separation idea is not clear cut. There is certainly a down side. I wonder whether this will stick. Martin -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Realm(?) authentication

2004-04-18 Thread Adam Hardy
On 04/18/2004 12:22 PM Frank Schaare wrote: I've written one step by step for this. It's for Tomcat on Linux, but I don't think Windows is different at all, at least for the realm part. Can't say the same for the installation. You can view it at

Re: Configuration and performance questions

2004-04-20 Thread Adam Hardy
1. Yes of course. 4.1.30 is many release cycles ahead of 5.0.19. But that's a matter of course with all software. 2. Don't know. 3. I thought 'enterprise' was a marketing word ;) 4. Are you sure you've got apache configured correctly? I don't think there should be such a noticeable

Re: LoginModules

2004-04-21 Thread Adam Hardy
On 04/21/2004 10:27 PM Alan Weissman wrote: I've written a simple login module that I've configured to run from a Struts Action class and it appears to be working wonderfully - authentication takes place and principal/credentials are returned. However, I can't get any of this information back when

Re: another problem with JAAS

2004-04-22 Thread Adam Hardy
The servlet container spec from Sun doesn't specify any integration requirements for JAAS. The JAAS support is basically fledgeling authentication, and that's it for servlet spec 2.4 - I would be interested myself in seeing the discussions and motivations behind the progress and changes on the

Re: another problem with JAAS

2004-04-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Michiel, that would be the one that you put there, right? Adam On 04/23/2004 10:33 AM Michiel Toneman wrote: Oops, missed the How ;-) Subject subject = (Subject)session.getAttribute(javax.security.auth.subject); if (subject == null) { subject = new Subject(); }

jdk 1.4 logging and log formatter class not being found

2003-08-23 Thread Adam Hardy
I just upgraded from 4.1.24 to 4.1.27 and found that tomcat or java now can't find my formatter class which I need for JDK 1.4 logging. if you're not familiar with JDK 1.4 logging, the formatter class is what you specify in the logging.properties config file, which formats the output of the each

jdk 1.4 logging and log formatter class not being found

2003-08-23 Thread Adam Hardy
I just upgraded from 4.1.24 to 4.1.27 and found that tomcat or java now can't find my formatter class which I need for JDK 1.4 logging. if you're not familiar with JDK 1.4 logging, the formatter class is what you specify in the logging.properties config file, which formats the output of the

trying to use manager/html app with o.a.catalina.realm.JAASRealm

2003-08-25 Thread Adam Hardy
I'm using org.apache.catalina.realm.JAASRealm for my authentication for my webapps, and I have got to the point where I want to use tomcat's manager and admin app. Unfortunately when I try to use JAASRealm for the manager, JAASCallBackHandler throws an exception because it hasn't been given

Re: trying to use manager/html app with o.a.catalina.realm.JAASRealm

2003-08-25 Thread Adam Hardy
, Adam On 08/25/2003 12:43 PM Tim Funk wrote: You can place a Realm inside a Context declaration. As for the non-working of JAASRealm - I know nothing about it and have not used it. -Tim Adam Hardy wrote: I'm using org.apache.catalina.realm.JAASRealm for my authentication for my webapps, and I

Re: trying to use manager/html app with o.a.catalina.realm.JAASRealm

2003-08-25 Thread Adam Hardy
a webapp should use. -Tim Adam Hardy wrote: ah, ok. I put those 2 realms at engine level. So I can't have 2 realms in engine? Now thanks to your advice I've got the manager working with tomcat-users.xml by placing the realm tag in the manager.xml in the webapps dir. However I would like to keep

Re: [OT] but IMPORTANT

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Hardy
M$ lost it - but it is only the City of Munich, not the whole of Germany. On 08/28/2003 04:31 PM Dave Butler wrote: I remember them talking about it and M$ sending some heavies to Munich to sort them out.. - To

Re: [OT] but IMPORTANT

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Hardy
. --- Stuart MacPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forbid independent development of innovative software-based solutions... So you might only be able to code for someone else?! That does not sound good... -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 August 2003 13:01

jdk 1.4 logging and log formatter class not being found

2003-08-29 Thread Adam Hardy
This is a repost from last week, which got no answers. I've tried to give more better info here. I just upgraded from 4.1.24 to 4.1.27 and found that java now can't find my formatter class which I need for JDK 1.4 logging. The configuration in the logging.properties file is picked up fine, I

JAASRealm with Basic Authentication

2003-08-31 Thread Adam Hardy
I am trying to run my JAASRealm implementation, and I have it working successfully on my own apps using Form-based authentication, but when I try to use it for tomcat's manager tool (configured in webapps/manager.xml) or any other app using basic authentication, I have problems. First of all

Re: ClassNotFound Exception with Struts Action

2003-09-01 Thread Adam Hardy
hi Tom, it's not obvious what your problem could be. To find out the classpath being used by your app server, you should put an echo in your app server's batch file at the appropriate point, i.e. just before it calls javac. However app servers generally don't include the webapp directories in

Re: Using jdk1.4 logger problem

2003-09-05 Thread Adam Hardy
On 09/05/2003 05:16 AM Bill Barker wrote: But, some how the logger manager can't find the handler classes. (Class loader problem?) Yup, it's a CL problem. Unfortunately, it looks like the problem is in Sun's implementation of 1.4 Logging. Instead of using the ContextClassLoader, it's looking for

Re: Using jndi to get a DBCP BasicDataSource give ClassCastException

2003-09-05 Thread Adam Hardy
an I got BasicDataSource. --Angus -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:19 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Using jndi to get a DBCP BasicDataSource give ClassCastException Hi Angus, looked at your first mail and couldn't

Re: Using jndi to get a DBCP BasicDataSource give ClassCastExce ption

2003-09-05 Thread Adam Hardy
:11 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Using jndi to get a DBCP BasicDataSource give ClassCastExce ption I suppose there could be two different classes called BasicDataSource, in two different packages... -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05

[OT] but IMPORTANT

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Hardy
If you haven't checked http://jakarta.apache.org/ today, do so and read the welcome page. Sounds dire, but in these times, predictable. Nothing to do with me, I just agree with it. Adam -- struts 1.1 + tomcat 4.1.27 + java 1.4.2 Linux 2.4.20 RH9

Re: SSL/Verisign Confusion

2003-09-07 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Dave, how much does it cost at Verisign, and how long is it valid for? And is this 'openssl' you mentioned a free alternative? Adam On 09/06/2003 03:21 PM Dave Wood wrote: FINALLY! I still don't know what I did wrong in the first place, but after starting over with VeriSign, all is well

Re: JDBC via JNDI and the resource-env-ref tag

2003-09-09 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Hans, in my server.xml I have: GlobalNamingResources Resource name=jdbc/GlobalRealmDB auth=Container type=javax.sql.DataSource description=allows connections to be made to mySQL /Resource ResourceParams name=jdbc/GlobalRealmDB parameter

Re: Request Too Large

2003-09-11 Thread Adam Hardy
What is the URL querystring? There are limits on how long the query string can be. Sounds like the flash program is doing a GET instead of a post. Adam On 09/10/2003 06:22 PM chanan braunstein wrote: Good Morning, I need to build a page that accepts a POST from a flash program. So far my

Re: Setting contentType and also using container-based authentication

2003-09-12 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Matt, how does it work if you use a meta tag direct in html? meta http-equiv=content-type content=application/vnd.ms-excel / On 09/11/2003 07:54 PM Sgarlata Matt wrote: I'm having trouble using the %@ page contentType= % directive and container-based authentication. Here is a toy example that

Re: setup of global resources, dbcp, mail, etc.

2003-09-15 Thread Adam Hardy
The tricky bit is to remember to put a reference to the global-resource in the contexts which want to use it: ResourceLink name=jdbc/RealmDB global=jdbc/GlobalRealmDB type=javax.sql.DataSource/ Adam On 09/15/2003 07:03 PM Paul wrote: has anyone been successful

Re: setup of global resources, dbcp, mail, etc.

2003-09-15 Thread Adam Hardy
that the values for the name and global parameter in the ResourceLink tag are the same. I notice that in your example they are different. Where does the global value get defined? - Original Message - From: Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15

Re: ? catalina.out under Windows

2003-09-16 Thread Adam Hardy
It depends on your logging configuration rather than catalina.bat. When you say catalina.out, you mean the console? On 09/16/2003 02:20 PM Csaba Nemeth wrote: Hi all, I would like to log everything under Windows (like under linux) to catalina.out. How should I configure this? ( A proper

Re: MySQL DBCP pool exausted error message

2003-09-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Nathan, could you rephrase what the problem is? It's a bit ambiguous. Do you mean that each thread can only do one DB operation and then it gets the exception on its next DB operation, or on its next http request? Have you checked in bugzilla? I think there are some unresolved issues with

Re: MySQL DBCP pool exausted error message [SOLVED]

2003-09-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Guess you won't be needing my reply then, but looking at your code, it seems that your finally block could be improved slightly :) In the rare situation where statement.close() throws an exception, your connection won't be closed. Adam On 09/17/2003 10:20 PM Nathan Christiansen wrote: Sorry.

Re: Trying to get off this list

2003-09-18 Thread Adam Hardy
you have to answer the confirm email it sends you. On 09/18/2003 01:29 PM Ronaldo Quispe wrote: Hello, How does one get off this list? I tried the by sending email as described in the web site but that does not work. Is there a moderator that can help? Ronaldo Q.

manager/html app

2003-09-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Is there a way to configure the manager app to use form-based or digest authentication so I can use SSL to encrypt the login? As I understand it, with basic authentication the passwords are sent in plain text across the net, allowing them to be snooped out from caches and logs. I've no

Re: manager/html app

2003-09-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Thanks, I'll do that. Adam On 09/19/2003 07:48 PM Filip Hanik wrote: in web.xml for the manager app, force it to use SSL, that way the only way to connect into it is over SSL and you are good to go, even with basic authentication Filip - Original Message - From: Adam Hardy [EMAIL

single sign-on, form-based CMA, etc

2003-09-22 Thread Adam Hardy
Looking through the archives I see this topic has had some heavy discussion in the past, but I just want to bring it up again to verify a few points. To overcome the issue with tomcat 4.x where the first session amongst all contexts to time-out will time-out all the user's other sessions, I

Re: stdout.log file growing very quickly.

2003-09-22 Thread Adam Hardy
another question on this topic which has long puzzled me: is tomcat being changed over to commons-logging to output log statements? Or is it all configured going to remain controlled by the debug attributes of nodes in server.xml? If I set all those debug attributes to 0, will tomcat become

Re: stdout.log file growing very quickly.

2003-09-22 Thread Adam Hardy
On 09/22/2003 04:25 PM Shapira, Yoav wrote: Tomcat is already mostly switched over to commons logging. tomcat 4 as well, or just 5? If so, then presumably there is a logging properties config file somewhere, which the original poster could configure so that less output goes to the console? In

Re: Is struts.jar mandatory for tomcat 4.1.24 ?

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Hardy
No it's not mandatory. But tomcat's admin app uses struts. This is controlled by an .xml file in your webapps directory, and it points to the deployment in tomcat/server/webapps/admin. Adam On 09/23/2003 06:07 AM Sarika N Inamdar wrote: Hi All, Please let me know if struts.jar should be

Re: Forwarding with Tomcat Standalone

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Have you set up the security-constraint in your web.xml for those pages? security-constraint web-resource-collection web-resource-nameLogin 4 Everything/web-resource-name !-- Define the context-relative URL(s) to be protected -- url-pattern/private/*/url-pattern

Re: Single Login Authentication with Tomcat

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Hardy
I believe somewhere on java.sun.com I saw an article about setting up JAAS as a tomcat realm to use NT authorisation. Good luck, Adam On 09/23/2003 07:29 AM Peter Harrison wrote: I was wondering it anyone knows how to do NT based one login authentication with web applications. I was hoping

Re: Is struts.jar mandatory for tomcat 4.1.24 ?

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Is there a way that we can tell tomcat not to use struts.jar ? Do we need to make any changes in the web.xml ? Please let us know on this. Thanks Much, Sarika -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:49 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject

Re: character encoding, JAAS, servlet filter vs. valve

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Joerg, since you are using struts, why don't you ditch the SetCharacterEncodingFilter and set the character-encoding as a property of the struts controller? This means you also don't need anything in your JSPs. I assume you are using form-based container-managed authentication as the

Re: Is struts.jar mandatory for tomcat 4.1.24 ?

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Hardy
. Adam On 09/23/2003 11:56 AM Adam Hardy wrote: Hi Sarika, I think the easiest solution is to move the admin.xml file out of your tomcat/webapps directory. Then the admin app will not be started with tomcat. HTH Adam On 09/23/2003 10:36 AM Sarika N Inamdar wrote: Hi, Thanks for the inputs. We

Re: character encoding, JAAS, servlet filter vs. valve

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Hardy
I can't see why. Perhaps you are overriding it later in the request processing? Struts uses response.setContentType() The docs say: overridden automatically if a * codeRequestDispatcher.forward()/code call is * ultimately invoked. but that leaves me none the wiser. Adam On 09/23/2003

Re: character encoding, JAAS, servlet filter vs. valve

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Hardy
On 09/23/2003 03:20 PM Joerg Heinicke wrote: Ah, okay. It's our first Struts project and experience. I found http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api/org/apache/struts/config/ControllerConfig.html#contentType and set the contentType in the struts-config.xml with controller

Re: JDBC Realm problems

2003-09-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Your config looks OK. Are you getting any errors logged when you try to log on? On 09/23/2003 04:43 PM Laurent Perez wrote: Hello I am trying to protect a webapp I wrote using a JDBCRealm, but it doesn't seem to work as expected. I am using Tomcat 4.1.27, and Postgresql 7.3.2, with latest

Re: Configuring a JDBC Data Source

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Hardy
sounds like you need the commons-dbcp and commons-pool jar files as well. Adam On 09/24/2003 01:52 AM Renda, Michael wrote: I'm trying to configure a JDBC Data Source for a Tomcat 4.1.27 installation. I used the Admin tool which wrote the following entry to my server.xml file:

Re: Is struts.jar mandatory for tomcat 4.1.24 ?

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Hardy
struts.jar ? Do we need to make any changes in the web.xml ? Please let us know on this. Thanks Much, Sarika -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:49 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Is struts.jar mandatory for tomcat

Re: OT: Apologies

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Stop it, you're giving me dxlseiya On 09/24/2003 08:18 AM Micael wrote: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and

Re: JDBC Realm problems

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Don't you get: Digester.error(): org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element security-constraint requires additional elements. On 09/24/2003 09:48 AM Laurent Perez wrote: in case no one noticed and it matters, web.xml has following typo in it, where resource is spelled ressource:

Re: JDBC Realm problems

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Yes! I was unaware that you could disable xml parsing exceptions. But it seems you have. :( Perhaps it depends on the xml parser you are running. Mine is crimson (SAX?). Adam On 09/24/2003 11:29 AM Laurent Perez wrote: Don't you get: Digester.error(): org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element

Re: JDBC Realm problems

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Hardy
Oh I'm very sorry, perhaps I confused your post with somebody else's. The problem I am referring to is the issue with the web-resource-name being spelt wrong. Adam On 09/24/2003 12:08 PM Laurent Perez wrote: Yes! I was unaware that you could disable xml parsing exceptions. But it seems you

Re: Configuring a JDBC Data Source

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Hardy
at jakarta.apache.org from their binary downloads page. On 09/24/2003 01:05 PM Renda, Michael wrote: I've got the commons-dbcp.jar file in the common/lib directory. Where do I find the commons-pool.jar file? Mike -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: Is struts.jar mandatory for tomcat 4.1.24 ?

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Hardy
-nameapplication/param-name param-valueApplicationResources/param-value /init-param Is there a way that we can tell tomcat not to use struts.jar ? Do we need to make any changes in the web.xml ? Please let us know on this. Thanks Much, Sarika -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: character encoding, JAAS, servlet filter vs. valve

2003-09-24 Thread Adam Hardy
PM Joerg Heinicke wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I can't see why. Perhaps you are overriding it later in the request processing? Struts uses response.setContentType() The docs say: overridden automatically if a * codeRequestDispatcher.forward()/code call is * ultimately invoked

Re: java.util.logging and tomcat

2003-09-27 Thread Adam Hardy
Statements should go to $CATALINA_HOME/logs/ if you have set up your JDK logging.properties not to filter them out. Adam On 09/26/2003 08:34 AM Josh G wrote: Just wondering if anybody here has any experience on using java.util.logging with tomcat? I was under the impression that logged lines

form-based login / cookies disabled / JSPs in WEB-INF

2003-09-28 Thread Adam Hardy
I think I have a problem. I want form-based container-managed authentication on my app. I also want to allow cookies to be disabled. And I want to keep my JSPs under WEB-INF for security. It seems I cannot have these 3 combined, because disabling cookies means I have to do URL rewriting in

Re: form-based login / cookies disabled / JSPs in WEB-INF

2003-09-28 Thread Adam Hardy
On 09/28/2003 06:09 PM Jose Alfonso Martinez wrote: Do you really need to maintain a session, even when the user is just browsing static html files (before logging in)??? If the answer is no, then you could have an html login form. Try it! If tomcat doesn't have a session id to store the user's

Re: java.util.logging and tomcat

2003-09-29 Thread Adam Hardy
wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Statements should go to $CATALINA_HOME/logs/ if you have set up your JDK logging.properties not to filter them out. How do I make that change? -- struts 1.1 + tomcat 4.1.27 + java 1.4.2 Linux 2.4.20 RH9

Re: Capturing all Requests to Tomcat.

2003-09-29 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Steven, check out the AccessLogValve in your server.xml Adam On 09/29/2003 11:35 AM Steven Perry wrote: Hello All, I have got Tomcat 4.1. I would like to read all the requests that are passed onto Tomcat from all the different applications, and print them either onto the screen or a file. I

Re: Datasource connections not released when reloading context

2003-10-01 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi Matt, you don't destroy them, you just close them. if (!conn.isClosed()) conn.close(); On 09/30/2003 12:51 AM Matt Raible wrote: If I'm getting my database connections from a JNDI resource (configured in server.xml) how do I destroy these suckers. Sample code would be great - or tell me

Re: Datasource connections not released when reloading context

2003-10-01 Thread Adam Hardy
actually that doesn't really close them, since it's a connection pool, but it tells the connection pool that they're free for someone else. On 10/01/2003 11:05 AM Adam Hardy wrote: Hi Matt, you don't destroy them, you just close them. if (!conn.isClosed()) conn.close(); On 09/30/2003 12:51

Re: Filter for Form Authentication Problem

2003-10-01 Thread Adam Hardy
That bugzilla issue only addresses filters, not character encoding, with j_security_check. On the one hand the servlet 2.4 spec actually addresses response character encoding issues nicely, with the addition of stuff like: locale-encoding-mapping-list locale-encoding-mapping

Re: form-based login / cookies disabled / JSPs in WEB-INF

2003-10-01 Thread Adam Hardy
there. other ideas or comments Jose On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 06:50:05PM +0200, Adam Hardy wrote: On 09/28/2003 06:09 PM Jose Alfonso Martinez wrote: Do you really need to maintain a session, even when the user is just browsing static html files (before logging in)??? If the answer is no, then you

Re: Datasource connections not released when reloading context

2003-10-03 Thread Adam Hardy
Sorry, but I didn't see which datasource you were using. With DBCP, you have these optional parameters: !-- abandoned dB connections are removed and recycled -- parameter nameremoveAbandoned/name valuetrue/value /parameter !-- set the number of seconds a dB connection has been idle

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